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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9435336, member: 2844&quot;]Amazing. Things in Armenia were extremely difficult at the time, with many Armenians having to flee the Iranian scorched earth policy (to create a buffer between them and the ever advancing Ottomans). </p><p>There was an important Armenian community in the Dutch Republic.</p><p>Amsterdam was a centre for book printing, especially books that couldn&#039;t be printed elsewhere. Both the Armenian community here and the book printing fame explain why an Armenian bible was printed in Amsterdam. But to have this in your hands is a connection to that world of learning and free speech in a politically volatile, and even dangerous, world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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