Mer Hayrenik

Մեր Հայրենիք

English: Our Fatherland
National anthem of  Armenia
Lyrics	Mikael Nalbandian, 1861
Music	Barsegh Kanachyan
Adopted	1918 1991
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"Our Fatherland" (Armenian: Մեր Հայրենիք, say: mair hy-ren-IK) is the national anthem of Armenia. The words of the song were written by by Mikael Nalbandian in 1861, and the melody for his words were composed by Barsegh Kanachyan.^[1] It is based on a poem called "The Song of an Italian Girl".

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