The first Armenology Institute in Romania serving within “Babe?-Bolyai” University (UBB) was inaugurated on Friday in Cluj-Napoca. The institute aims at researching the Armenian communities in Central and Eastern Europe.
“The activity of the Armenology Institute will foster the discovery of the Armenian element in the European contemporary space’s cultural diversity as well as the enrichment of the Armenian identity”, Armenian ambassador to Romania, Hamlet Gasparian said in his speech.
In his turn, UBB rector Ioan Aurel Pop reminded that, since the Middle Age, Armenian communities established in the European regions have been brought prosperity and hammered out a stable, thriving social and economic climate where they settled down.