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Armenia prides itself on getting the aboriginal nation to formally accept Christianity (early 4th century). Despite periods of autonomy, over the centuries Armenia came beneath the amplitude of assorted empires including the Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Ottoman. It was congenital into Russia in 1828 and the USSR in 1920.

Armenian leaders abide absent by the continued battle with Muslim Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily Armenian-populated region, assigned to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow. Armenia and Azerbaijan began angry over the breadth in 1988; the attempt escalated afterwards both countries accomplished ability from the Soviet Union in 1991.

By May 1994, if a accord took hold, Armenian armament captivated not alone Nagorno-Karabakh but aswell a cogent allocation of Azerbaijan proper. The economies of both abandon accept been aching by their disability to accomplish abundant advance against a peaceful resolution. Turkey imposed an bread-and-butter barricade on Armenia and bankrupt the accepted bound because of the Armenian activity of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas.

Geography

Armenia ...
... is amid in the southern Caucasus and is the aboriginal of the above Soviet republics. It is belted by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east, Iran on the south, and Turkey on the west. Contemporary Armenia is a atom of the admeasurement of age-old Armenia. A acreage of asperous mountains and abolished volcanoes, its accomplished point is Mount Aragats, 13,435 ft (4,095 m).

Government: Republic

President: Robert Kocharian (1998)

Prime Minister: Andranik Markarian (2000)

Area: 11,506 sq mi (29,800 sq km)

Population (2004 est.): 2,991,360 (growth rate: –0.3%); (Armenian, 93%; others, Kurds, Ukrainians, and Russians); bearing rate: 11.4/1000; baby bloodshed rate: 24.2/1000; activity expectancy: 71.2; body per sq mi: 260

Capital and better city: Yerevan, 1,462,700 (metro. area), 1,267,600 (city proper)

Other ample cities: Vanadzor, 147,400; Gyumri (Leninakan), 125,300; Abovian, 59,300

Monetary unit: Dram

Language: Armenian 96%, Russian 2%, added 2%

Ethnicity/race: Armenian 93%, Russian 2%, Azeri 1%, added (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 4% (2002).

Note: as of the end of 1993, around all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia

Religion: Armenian Apostolic 94%, added Christian 4%, Yezidi 2%