Besides the obvious religious affiliation , there is also the story of the " Arba Lijoch " children coming to Ethiopia after the Armenian Genocide . Arba Lijoch were a group of 40 Armenian orphans who had escaped from the atrocities in Turkey , and were afterwards adopted by Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia , then Crown Prince Ras Tafari . He had met them while visiting the Armenian monastery in Jerusalem . They impressed him so much that he obtained permission from the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem to adopt and bring them to Ethiopia , where he then arranged for them to receive musical instruction
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenians in Ethiopia