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| | A General History of the Near East, Chapter 18 |
 | | In the case of Armenia, for example, they persecuted Christianity, because the Armenian Church was seen as the backbone of Armenian culture, and two districts that had been promised to Armenia in a 1920 agreement, Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh, were given to Azerbaijan instead. |
 | | Under the agreement, Abkhazia would remain an autonomous part of Georgia; as a result, the Abkhazians now claim that Georgia is really a two-state confederation, with its capitals at Tbilisi and AqW'a (formerly Sukhumi). |
 | | However, the constitution did not define the territorial status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and those districts did not vote in the presidential and legislative elections that followed in November. |
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