OFFICIAL NAME: Hayastan CAPITAL CITY: Yerevan POPULATION: 2,980,000 (Source: COUNTRYaah) AREA: 28,200 km² OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (S): Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian RELIGION: Armenian Christians 90%, others 10% COIN: dram CURRENCY CODE: AMD ENGLISH NAME: Armenia INDEPENDENCE: 1991 POPULATION COMPOSITION: Armenians 90%, Azerbaijani 5%,...
Armenia is one of the most ancient states of Transcaucasia and the first country to adopt Christianity as the state religion. Centuries-old Christian traditions are displayed in numerous monasteries, churches and khachkars (stone sculptures with crosses carved on them), the oldest...
Helpful information Telephone Telephone communication in Armenia is quite outdated, therefore, the country is actively engaged in its renewal and modernization. You can call from a pay phone using small coins, but recently, machines more often work using magnetic cards. Foreign...
From the independent to the Soviet republic – Armenia 1918–1990 In the superimposition of social and interethnic conflicts, bloody “Armenian-Tatar” riots broke out in 1905-07 overshadowed and continued until 1920 in territorial disputes (Sangesur, Karabakh, Nakhichevan, Borchalo) with Azerbaijan and Georgia....
