The Petroglyph of Bulls on the Slope of Ukhtasar Volcano
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Ağrı Dağı and the Yerevan skyline. The Opera house is visible in the center.
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View of Khor Virap , an Armenian monastery and one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Armenia located in the Ararat plain with Mount Ararat in the background. Khor…
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Did you know?
The Armenian highlands have been home to the Hayasa-Azzi, Shupria, and Nairi peoples. By at least 600 BC, an archaic form of Proto-Armenian, an Indo-European language, had diffused into the Armenian highlands. The first Armenian state of Urartu was established in 860 BC, and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC and in AD 301 became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion.
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A girl lays flowers at Tsitsernakaberd , the Armenian genocide memorial complex in Yerevan , Armenia (seen from above).
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Green car on Charents street in Tsaghkadzor, Kotayk Province, Armenia
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Etymology
The original native Armenian name for the country was Հայք (Hayk') after the legendary founder Hayk Nahapet; however, it is currently rarely used. The contemporary name Հայաստան (Hayastan) became popular in the Middle Ages by addition of the Persian suffix -stan (place). However the origins of the name Hayastan trace back to much earlier dates and were first attested in c. 5th century in the works of Agathangelos, Faustus of Byzantium, Ghazar Parpetsi, Koryun, and Sebeos.
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Yerevan Market
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History
The first human traces are supported by the presence of Acheulean tools, generally close to the obsidian outcrops more than 1 million years ago. The most recent and important excavation is at the Nor Geghi 1 Stone Age site in the Hrazdan river valley. Thousands of 325,000 year-old artifacts may indicate that this stage of human technological innovation occurred intermittently throughout the Old World, rather than spreading from a single point of origin (usually hypothesized to be Africa), as was previously thought.
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St. John the Baptist Church of Yerevan (view from Proshyan Street)
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Garni Temple. Garni,Kotayk region,Armenia.
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Geography
Armenia is a landlocked country in the geopolitical Transcaucasus (South Caucasus) region, that is located in the Southern Caucasus Mountains and their lowlands between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, and northeast of the Armenian Highlands. Armenia is widely accepted as part of West Asia geographically, although other definitions place it either fully in Europe or across Europe and Asia.
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Armenian martial dance Yarkhushta
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Algérie - Arménie - 20140531 - Yacine Brahimi (Alg) face à Taron Voskanyan (Arm).
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Government and politics
Armenia is a representative parliamentary democratic republic. The Armenian constitution adhered to the model of a semi-presidential republic until April 2018.
According to the current Constitution of Armenia, the President is the head of state holding largely representational functions, while the Prime Minister is the head of government and exercises executive power.
Since 1995, legislative power is vested in the Azgayin Zhoghov or National Assembly, which is a unicameral parliament consisting of 105 members.
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«Մոսկվա» կինոթատրոնը Երևանում:
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Концерт «Дудук и голос» (14 ноября 2019 года) в рамках Сезона армянской культуры в Москве. Артём Тер-Оганнисян - дудук, Анна Авакян - голос, Дмитрий Болдырь - рояль.
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Economy
The economy relies heavily on investment and support from Armenians abroad. Before independence, Armenia's economy was largely industry-based – chemicals, electronics, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber, and textile – and highly dependent on outside resources. The republic had developed a modern industrial sector, supplying machine tools, textiles, and other manufactured goods to sister republics in exchange for raw materials and energy.
Agriculture accounted for less than 20% of both net material product and total employment before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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en:Yerevan Vernissage
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Khor-Virap Monastery
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The Temple of Garni ( lit. "pagan temple of Garni") is a classical Hellenistic temple in Garni , Armenia . It is perhaps the best-known structure and symbol of…
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Demographics
Armenia has a population of 3,081,100 as of 2025. It is the third most densely populated of the former Soviet republics. The country has faced population decline since the breakup of the USSR due to high levels of emigration; the population peaked at 3.6 million in 1991. However, since 2012, the emigration rate has slowed, and some population growth has been observed.
Armenia has a relatively large external diaspora—8 million by some estimates, greatly exceeding the 3 million people in Armenia itself—which is dispersed across the globe.
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Frontal night view of the History Museum of Armenia , Republic Square , Yerevan , capital of Armenia . The museum, founded in 1920, has 400,000 objects belonging to the…
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Culture
Armenian architecture, as it originates in an earthquake-prone region, tends to be built with this hazard in mind. Armenian buildings tend to be rather low-slung and thick-walled in design. Armenia has abundant resources of stone, and relatively few forests, so stone was nearly always used throughout for large buildings. Small buildings and most residential buildings were normally constructed of lighter materials, and hardly any early examples survive, as at the abandoned medieval capital of Ani.
The duduk, dhol, zurna, and kanun are common instruments in Armenian folk music.
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