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  Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Republic of Armenia, or Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան, Hayastan, Hayq), is a landlocked country in southern Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and Iran (Persia) and the Naxçıvan exclave of Azerbaijan in the south.
Armenia was a regional empire with a rich culture in the years leading up to the 1st Century, spanning from the shores of the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea during the rule of Tigranes the Great.
Armenia is a landlocked country in Asia Minor, between the Black and the Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Provinces_of_Armenia   (2103 words)

  
 Provinces of Armenia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Provinces of Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Armenia is a land of mountains and deep valleys, surrounding a high plateau.
Also in December Armenia was accorded diplomatic recognition by the USA and in January 1992 was admitted into the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE, from 1994 the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE); in March 1992 it became a member of the United Nations.
In January 2001, Armenia was admitted to the Council of Europe.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Provinces+of+Armenia   (1244 words)

  
 Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Republic of Armenia is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, with Turkey to the west and Georgia to the north, and sharing borders with Azerbaijan in the east, and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in the south.
Armenia was a rich empire and had a rich culture before 1454, at one period controlling all the land between the Black and Caspian Seas.
Armenia is considered the first nation to adopt Christianity, tracing its church's roots back to the 3rd and 4th centuries.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/a/ar/armenia.html   (784 words)

  
 Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Armenia, or Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան, Hayastan, Հայք, Hayq), is a landlocked country in the southern Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east and Iran (Persia) and the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south.
Armenia is a landlocked country, lacking a seacoast or a port.
Armenia is interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, a group of 12 former Soviet republics) and with members of the international community on environmental issues.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenia   (2729 words)

  
 Armenia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Armenia ((A native or inhabitant of Armenia) Armenian:
The Government of Armenia's stated aim is to build a Western-style (A democracy having a parliament) parliamentary democracy as the basis of its (The members of a social organization who are in power) form of government.
Armenia is considered the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion, in (Click link for more info and facts about 301) 301 CE.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/armenia.htm   (2376 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
By fortunate chance, he was about to leave for Armenia to help observe an election there.
Armenia was incorporated into Russian Empire in 1828 and the USSR in 1920.
Armenia and Azerbaijan began fighting over the exclave in 1988; the struggle escalated after both countries attained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Armenia   (738 words)

  
 Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Armenia is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in the south.
Armenia was a rich empire and had a rich culture before the common era, at one period controlling all the land between the Black and Caspian Seas.
The Armenians living in the western part of Armenia (Ottoman Armenia) were subjected to the Armenian Genocide in 1915 during which 1.5 million Armenians were killed and most of the remaining were deported.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ar/Armenia.htm   (932 words)

  
 Rome’s Involvement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Even though Armenia was a province for a short period, it was ruled by an Armenian king, usually appointed by the Roman emperor and watched by a proconsul.
Armenia became a client state to Rome at this point and eventually was partitioned between the Romans and the Parthians.
Armenia was used as a pawn between the two rivals all of its existence.
www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/arm_rom.htm   (378 words)

  
 Yerevan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1827 it was taken by Russia and formally ceded by the Persians in 1828.
After the 1917 Russian revolution it enjoyed three years as the capital of independent Armenia, and in 1920 became the capital of the newly formed Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yerevan became the capital of the independent Republic of Armenia in 1991.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Yerevan   (428 words)

  
 Armenia and Armenian News - YERKIR Armenian Online Newspaper
So the process was natural, Armenia could not feed that many people, and those who left helped to survive others in those years by sending money to their relatives.
The economic situation in Armenia is changing, so is the situation with the emigration.
Azerbaijani provinces are in a worse economic situation than the Armenian provinces are.
www.yerkir.am /eng/index.php?sub=interview&id=37   (2596 words)

  
 Armenia, Landmine Monitor Report 2004
Armenia stipulates her accession to the Treaty on simultaneous signing of the Treaty by all countries of the region.
Armenia is not a member of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) or its Amended Protocol II on landmines, but it reports that it is considering acceding to Amended Protocol II.
In Tavush province, 9,409 hectares of privatized land are believed to be mined and the inhabitants of 42 villages bordering Azerbaijan are fearful of farming due to their proximity to the mined areas.
www.icbl.org /lm/2004/armenia   (3140 words)

  
 ARMENIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2001
Armenia has not acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty and continues to make clear that accession is contingent on regional issues.
Armenia is not believed to be a producer or exporter of antipersonnel mines.
A meeting was held in on the Armenian-Azerbaijan border in January 2001 and attended by the representatives of the Armenian Defense Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Tavush regional Governor.
www.icbl.org /lm/2001/armenia   (2778 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Provinces of Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Provinces-of-Armenia   (72 words)

  
 Armenian Weekly Online: August 2004, politics, irredenta, territorial demands, geography
Small and landlocked, Armenia is outflanked by Turkey to the west and Azerbaijan to the east.
To endure and prosper, Armenia must somehow break out of its geographical straightjacket by reclaiming the lands of historical Western Armenia, which, as we know, lie mostly within what is now called eastern Turkey.
Armenia or a friendly power would need to administer the territory for it to be safe for resettlement.
www.hairenik.com /armenianweekly/august_2004/politics001.html   (1280 words)

  
 About Armenia-History, Facts, Cities, Regions
The first indications of Armenia can be traces in Sumerian cuneiform inscriptions dating back to 3rd millennium B.C., and the Hittites testify the existence of a country called Hayasa which is believed to be the cradle of Armenians.
In 1828 the Turkmencha Accord came to finally unify Eastern Armenia with Russia, and in the result of the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish war the Western Armenian marz of Kars was unified with Russia as well.
Armenia is a food importer, and its mineral deposits (gold, bauxite) are small.
www.visitarm.com /aboutarmenia.html   (2096 words)

  
 HyeEtch - The Armenians - Prominent Armenians
After receiving his primary education in his native province of Taron, St. Mesrop, in the year 389 AD was enlisted in the royal garrison of the king in the capital city of Vagharshapat.
The people of remote provinces and villages would retain and cling to their pagan ways as far as the late middle ages all over Europe) population of the remote provinces of Greater Armenia in Goghtan, Syunik and Artsakh.
Christian Nation of Armenia is one of the most ingenious and eminent personalities and faces in not only Armenian, but has his rightful place in the global world history and human heritage.
www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au /armenians/prominent_p2.html   (1122 words)

  
 Armenia Provinces
The final standard shows the same eleven provinces, but their ISO codes have been changed to two-letter codes, and the status of Erevan has been changed from province to city.
Armenia was under Russian domination for most of the 20th century.
Armenia is divided into ten gavaṙ (provinces) and one kaghak (city).
www.statoids.com /uam.html   (562 words)

  
 BakuTODAY.net - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Caspian news, links, maps etc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On the night of this date, last Azerbaijanis in the current Armenia (hereafter Armenia), residents of the Nuvadi village, left their historical lands to escape the potential massacre by Armenian militants equipped and supported by the government of Armenia and the Soviet army.
“Armenia Azerbaijanis Historical Geography” is a comprehensive historical essay based on many trusted sources and historical exploration that eliminates the basis of false claims and propaganda of Armenians about the origin and history of Azerbaijanis in Armenia.
Armenia is supposed to obstruct the flow of human resources to the Ottoman Empire from other Turkic nations.
www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=12486   (2194 words)

  
 Historical-Political Aspects of Karabagh
Artsakh served as a shield for the central regions of Armenia from the raids of nomadic tribes from the east.
The sources testify that Mountainous Karabagh was one of the original provinces of Armenia regardless of the different names assigned to the territory in various periods of the history, and the Armenians have always been the aborigine population of Nagorno Karabagh.
The negotiations on liberation of Armenia from the foreign yoke initiated with the European countries were mainly based on the military forces of the Armenian meliks of Artsakh and Siunik.
www.karabagh.am /eng/GlavTem/ist-polaspects.htm   (3877 words)

  
 UMCOR Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A joint venture of FOs in a federation further intensifies the process of economies of scale and allows farmers to be heard at the regional and national levels.
Armenia is a country of origin, transit and destination.
The project goal is to raise community awareness of public health issues in Armenia by enhancing the capacity of selected leaders and professionals and their agencies, enabling them to develop effective public health education strategies for identified priorities in the health sector.
www.umcor-ngo.org /english/countries/armenia.htm   (2157 words)

  
 GALAS Los Angeles - News
Armenia's health ministry and Global Foundation signed a grant agreement Friday, with the latter giving the ministry 3.2 million dollars for 2 years, a portion of a 7.2 million-dollar-worth grant, to back up its HIV/AIDS prevention program.
Though Armenia enjoys a low spread of HIV/AIDS, the increase of the disease in its neighborhood, the high index of poverty in the country, unemployment and migration are serious challenges for it.
One of the objectives of the project is to establish HIV free examination laboratories in all provinces of Armenia and the capital Yerevan.
www.galasla.org /news_detail.asp?ID=42   (234 words)

  
 Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There had been various pagan communities before Christianity, but they were converted by an influx of Christian missionaries.
This steady economic progress has earned Armenia increasing support from international institutions.
Mother Armenia (Mayr Hayastan) statue, located near Victory Park, in Yerevan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provinces_of_Armenia   (2729 words)

  
 Armenian Genocide - Armeniapedia.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
What is now called Wilsonian Armenia included most of the six western Ottoman provinces as well as a large coastline on the Black Sea.
Cilicia, a separate Armenian region on the Mediterranean, was to be a French mandate.
The Kars and Ardahan provinces of Armenia were taken as well in an agreement with the Soviet Union.
www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Armenian_Genocide   (1077 words)

  
 Go4yp - Online Yellow Pages
One of the cradles of civilisation, Armenia offers visitors a refreshing experience - if they are prepared to occasionally pass on all the comforts of home.
Armenia has been trampled over by most of the ancient worlds big players, and was nearly wiped out altogether in the early years of the 20th century.
The Soviet Union dropped in unasked and stayed for 70 years, bequeathing monumentally ugly buildings and a taste for grand military parades.
www.go4yp.com /Country/Armenia.shtml   (198 words)

  
 Armenia (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
The word "Armenia" occurs only twice in the King James Bible (2 Kings 19:37 and Isa.
Ararat was actually the name of a part of ancient Armenia.
Three provinces of this land are mentioned in Jer.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/armenia.html   (64 words)

  
 Programs Carried Out By "Armenia" Pan-Armenian Fund Presented - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With the help of this sum road building programs were implemented in Nagorno Karabagh and provinces of Armenia, particularly the strategic highway Goris-Stepanakert was repaired and South-North highway in Karabagh is being built.
In her words, the Pan-Armenian Fund's goal is to create an opportunity for all compatriots to take part in restoration and development of Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh.
In her words, an attempt to more develop the carried out work for the good of the Armenian nation is going to be made.
www.armeniadiaspora.com /js/031010pan_arm_fund.html   (360 words)

  
 UMCOR Armenia, Programs and Projects
UMCOR Armenia utilizes extensive programmatic experience in the agricultural sector in implementation of the farmers organizations support program (FOSPA).
The spread of trafficking in Armenia can be attributed to widespread poverty, unemployment and ignorance, moreover the situation is further exacerbated by porous borders and weak legislation.
Within the same framework, "Mission Armenia," a local NGO, offered social and health services to the disenfranchised through 21 soup kitchens and three community centers.
gbgm-umc.org /umcor/ngo/armenia   (2159 words)

  
 Hopeful signs for Turkey, Armenia - Council on Foreign Relations
Though the win-win analysis could be used by governments of Turkey and Armenia to break the impasse, it is clear that Ankara is a long way from recognizing the genocide.
It should encourage Armenia to reach out and point out to Turkey that good neighborly relations would enhance its prospects of joining the European Union.
David L. Phillips is a senior fellow and deputy director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations.
www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=8015   (908 words)

  
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Armenia's rich archaeological and historical monuments, which date from prehistoric times to the modern era, are presented in photos with explanations for the student, tourist, and interested visitor.
Tourists planning a visit to Armenia will also enjoy the natural beauty of this ancient land, captured in views that vary through the seasons.
Although we have also planned this site for members of the Armenian diaspora, to permit them to rediscover their heritage and reengage with their Motherland, anyone seeking a fuller understanding of the sweep of world history will profit from a virtual walk through this ancient land.
www.virtualarmenia.am   (261 words)

  
 Holy Apostles: Thaddeus and Bartholomew and their preaching in Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
n the year 2001 Armenia will celebrate the 1700 th anniversary of official state Christendom, the first to be established officially and the first to finally end the Christianity world status as a cult religion.
In the year 301 A. all of the nation was finally converted to Christianity, thus ending the centuries of persecutions of Armenia's Christians.
But the Christian faith in Armenia did not die out, but moreover quickly spread amongst peasantry and noble classes alike.
www.geocities.com /paris/leftbank/6507/chronicle702.html   (123 words)

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