Armenian Americans (Armenian: Õ¡Õ´Õ¥Ö€Õ«Õ¯Õ¡Õ°Õ¡ÕµÕ¥Ö€, amerikahayer)
are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or
partial Armenian ancestry. They form the second largest community of
the Armenian diaspora after Armenians in Russia. The first major wave
of Armenian immigration to the United States took place in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thousands of Armenians
settled in the United States following the Hamidian massacres of the
mid-1890s, the Adana Massacre of 1909, and the Armenian Genocide of
1915 in the Ottoman Empire. Since the 1950s many Armenians from the
Middle East (especially from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and
Turkey) migrated to America as a result of political instability in
the region. It accelerated in the late 1980s and has continued after
the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 due to socio-economic and
political reasons.The 2017 American Community Survey estimated that
485,970 Americans held full or partial Armenian ancestry. Various
organizations and media criticize these numbers as an underestimate,
proposing 800,000 to 1,500,000 Armenian Americans instead. The highest
concentration of Americans of Armenian descent is in the Greater Los
Angeles area, where 166,498 people have identified themselves as
Armenian to the 2000 Census, comprising over 40% of the 385,488 people
who identified Armenian origins in the US at the time. The city of
Glendale in the Los Angeles metropolitan area is widely thought to be
the center of Armenian American life (although many Armenians live in
the aptly named "Little Armenia" municipality of Los Angeles).The
Armenian American community is the most politically influential
community of the Armenian diaspora. Organizations such as Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA) and Armenian Assembly of America
advocate for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the United
States government and support stronger Armeniaâ€"United States
relations. The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is known for
its financial support and promotion of Armenian culture and Armenian
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