THE PERIODICAL “VAN TOSP”

Abstract

In recent years, many issues in the history of the First Republic of Armenia have been
covered. However, the history of the periodical press published in that period still needs to be
thoroughly studied. Along with the Ramkavar newspapers “Zhoghovurd” (People) and
“Zhoghovrdi Dzain” (People’s Voice), the official newspaper of the Armenian Constitutional
Ramkavar Party “Van Tosp” played an important role in the life of the First Republic of
Armenia. It began to be published in 1911 in Van (first stage), then from 1915 in Tiflis (second
stage), and from 1919 to the end of 1920 in Yerevan under the name “The Voice of Armenia”.
“Van-Tosp”, which in the first stage had a distinct literary-philological, historical-ethnical
orientation, became the most active provincial periodical addressing the issue of reopening the
Armenian Question in Western Armenian reality in 1912. The newspaper had a number of
consistent columns – “Editorial”, “Internal Theory”, “External Theory”, “Weekly News”,
“Press”, “Literary Works”, “Announcements”, “Others” and columns which appeared from
time to time.