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Siamanto
Adom Yarjanian (Armenian: Ատոմ Եարճանեան), better known by his pen name Siamanto (Սիամանթօ; 15 August – August ), was an influential Armenianwriter, poet and national figure from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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He was killed by the Ottoman authorities during the Armenian genocide.
Biography
Adom Yarjanian was born in in Agn (modern-day Kemaliye, Turkey), a town on the shores of the river Euphrates.
He lived in his native town until the age of He studied at the Nersesian School as a youth, where he developed an interest in poetry. The school's director encouraged him to continue developing his poetic talents.
Movses khorenatsi history of armeniaThe director, Garegin Srvandztiants, the noted folklorist and ethnographer, gave him the name Siamanto, after the hero of one of his stories. Yarjanian would use this name for the remainder of his life.
Siamanto came from an upper-middle-class family.
They moved to Constantinople (Istanbul) in , where he continued his studies at the Berberia
