The Western Armenian National Team represents the Western Armenian people, a geographic-linguistic subgroup of Armenians... who traditionally lived in the historic region of Western Armenia (now Eastern Turkey). Western Armenians speak the Western Armenian dialect of the Armenian language, and for the most part originate from the regions of Harout, Diyarbakir, Erzurum, Sivas and Van. These places now have almost no Armenians living there now as a result of the Armenian Genocide, which overwhelmingly affected Western Armenians.