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Armenise, typically Pugliese, has a stock in Bari with presences also in the Bari and Lecce areas, it should derive from an incorrect interpretation of the Armeniae term (of Armenia), probably written with the characters a and e final attached Armeniæ, this type of writing may have deceived the registry officer, who interpreted the a as if it were an s, the surname should date back to the period after the first world war and indicate an Armenian origin of the family, but it is not possible to exclude a more ancient origin, which could then date back to the second half of the 16th century. In the years following the start of World War I, thousands of Armenians fled to seek refuge from the genocide committed by the Ottoman government of young Turks, who, in that same period, killed at least one and a half million Armenians simply because they were observers of a religion different from theirs. The exiles found asylum first in Greece and then dispersed as stateless persons around the world, in 1924 the first landings began in the port of Bari, where they formed a large colony.
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