Khatabala

Khatabala
Khatabala #43 (c. 1908)
Editor-in-chief
  • Astvatsatur Yeritsyan
  • Ashot Atanasyan
Staff writers
Artistic contributors:
CategoriesSatire
FounderAstvatsatur Yeritsyan
Founded1906
Final issue1926
Based inTiflis (Tbilisi)
Language

Khatabala (Armenian: Խաթաբալա; Russian: Хатабала) was a twelve-page Armenian satirical periodical published in Tiflis (Tbilisi) from 1906 to 1916 and again in 1922 and 1925–26[1] in the Armenian and occasionally Russian and Georgian languages. It was founded by Astvatsatur Yeritsyan (1872–?),[2][3] who edited the periodical along with Ashot Atanasyan (1870–1941). The name of Khatabala comes from a popular word used by Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis and Persians meaning misfortune, setback, or troubles, ultimately derived from the Arabic words ḵaṭā 'error' and balāʾ 'trouble, tribulation'.[4]

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  4. ^ Berberian, Houri (2019). Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds. University of California Press. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-520-27894-3. OCLC 1101650331.