The Armenian community of Argentina has maintained its identity due to focus on the church , school and the family structure . Most of those who came in the mid-1920s escaped the Armenian Genocide and Adana massacres . The first Armenians came in 1908 and some came in 1915 , but it was not until 1924-1930 that the community took shape when some 10,000 people settled in Buenos Aires . Subsequent waves of immigrants came from Russia , Romania and Greece . The influx dried up in the early 1950s . Today , the community is estimated to number 380,000 . While survival was of paramount importance , education was also high on the agenda of the early immigrants . They had no money and few of them spoke a foreign language , therefore they gave a great deal of attention to education . Much of the Armenian community of Buenos Aires can be found in the Palermo neighborhood
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