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{{Short description|First Armenian language newspaper}}
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| foundation = October 16, 1794
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| publisher = [[Harutyun Shmavonyan]]
| editor = Harutyun Shmavonyan
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| headquarters = [[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]]
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'''''Azdarar''''' ({{langx|hy|Ազդարար}}) (pronounced '''Aztarar''' in [[Western Armenian]]) was the first [[Armenian language]] newspaper ever published. It was established on October 16, 1794, in the city of [[Madras]] (now [[Chennai]]) in [[India]] by Father [[Harutyun Shmavonyan]].<ref name="Seth1937">{{cite book|author=Mesrovb Jacob Seth|title=Armenians in India, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Work of Original Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BlreO8bmK30C&pg=PA598|accessdate=24 June 2016|year=1937|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0812-2|page=597}}</ref><ref name="Aslanian2011">{{cite book|author=Sebouh Aslanian|title=From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0Kn-DMl5ZoC&pg=PA87|accessdate=24 June 2016|date=4 May 2011|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-94757-3|pages=87–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.panorama.am/en/news/2015/10/16/armenia-press/1463641 | title=October 16 is Armenian Press Day | publisher=Panorama. | date=16 October 2015 | accessdate=24 June 2016}}</ref> It is also the first non-[[English language|English]] newspaper to be published in India.<ref name="Lalvani2016">{{cite book|author=Kartar Lalvani|title=The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4SlCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA383|accessdate=25 June 2016|date=10 March 2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4729-2484-1|pages=383–}}</ref> The monthly covered mainly cultural and historical issues.

'''Azdarar''' continued for a year and a half until March 1796. During that period, Father Shmavonian published 18 issues, 965 pages in total.

==Other Armenian periodical publications in India==
The publication of Azdarar in Madras in 1794 culminated in a series of other pioneering Armenian language publications in other cities of India including ''Ojanaspyurian'' (in [[Armenian language|Armenian]] Օճանասփիւռեան) in 1815 in Bombay, ''Hayeli Galgatian'' (in [[Armenian language|Armenian]] Հայելի Կալկաթեան meaning Calcuttan Mirror in Armenian) in Calcutta in 1820 and ''Shtemaran'' ([[Armenian language|Armenian]] Շտեմարան meaning repository in Armenian) in 1821 also in Calcutta, long before Constantinople (Istanbul) where the first Armenian periodical publication saw the light only in 1832․

==Commemorative stamp==
The Armenian postal authorities published a stamp denominated as 30 [[Armenian dram]]s in 1994 in commemoration of Father Shmavonian and his ''Azdarar'' publication's second centennial.<ref>[http://www.iatp.am/stamps/nam-1994.htm IATP: Armenian stamps of 1994]</ref>
[[File:Harutyun Shmavonyan.jpg|thumb|left|Bust of [[Harutyun Shmavonyan]] at the [[Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth]], [[Kolkata]]]]
[[File:ArmenianStamps-042.jpg|thumb|right|Armenian stamp on second centennial of the publication of ''Azdarar'']]

==New publication==
[[Image:Azdarar-logo.jpg|thumb|left|The new ''Azdarar'' publication]]
''Azdarar'' is a publication under the same name has resumed in 2007, in [[Kolkata]] (Calcutta), [[India]], after 210 years of the cessation of the original publication, as an initiative of [[Armenian-American]] astrophysicist Nora Andreasyan-Tomas.<ref>[http://hhpress.am/index.php?sub=hodv&hodv=20071226_11&flag=am Article in Hayastani Hanrapetutyun]</ref>

Azdarar is being published monthly in Calcutta, whereas the original historic publication was in Madras. It is a color magazine of average of 40 colour pages.<ref>[http://old.hetq.am/am/culture/azdarar/ Hetq: Վերահրատարակվում է «Ազդարար» հանդեսը] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424152143/http://old.hetq.am/am/culture/azdarar/ |date=April 24, 2012 }} (in Armenian)</ref>
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==References==
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