* ARD, a code frequently used for the Armenian dram, the currency of Armenia ( instead of the correct ISO 4217 code " AMD ")

Armenia is a landlocked country in the Transcaucasia region, between the Black and Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

" Armenia is a lower middle-income country.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

However, according to private tour operators and other individuals familiar with the country ’ s tourism industry, government claims that hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists visit Armenia each year are inflated.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.

The same year Armenia became the first country to adopt Christianity as its state religion.

In the 19th century, the government's policy was to send the heretics away from the center of the country into Caucasus, especially Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, central Asia, and Siberia.

* 2008 – Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan ; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.

The terrain's ruggedness is accentuated in the eastern part of the country, where the two mountain ranges converge into a lofty region with a median elevation of more than 1, 500 meters, which reaches its highest point along the borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

In 1991 with the independence of Armenia, Yerevan continued with its status as the political and cultural centre of the country, being home to all the national institutions: the Government house, the Parliament, ministries, the presidential palace, the constitutional court, judicial bodies and other public organisations.

He led a Roman army ( four legions ) through the mountainous country of Armenia, against the fortress at Volandum, to the southwest of Artaxata.

Certain countries around Europe have very simple backbone networks ; for example, in 2011, a woman in Georgia pierced a fiber backbone line with a shovel and left the neighboring country of Armenia without Internet access for 12 hours.

The E-road network in Georgia ( country ) | Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan

In the trilingual Behistun inscription, carved in the order of Darius the Great of Persia, the country referred to as Urartu in Babylonian is called Armenia in Old Persian.

Iceland was the first country to recognise the regained independence of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from the USSR in 1990-1991.

The name Armenia was given to the country by the surrounding states, and it is traditionally derived from Armenak or Aram ( the great-grandson of Haik's great-grandson, and another leader who is, according to Armenian tradition, the ancestor of all Armenians ).

Armenia had been without a king since Bahram's brother Shapur had vacated the country in 418.

Armenian refers to something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eastern Europe:

Tigranes II (), more commonly known as Tigranes the Great ( Tigran Mets ; Tigránes o Mégas ) ( 140 – 55 BC ) was emperor of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state east of the Roman Republic.

The mountains of Armenia, however, formed natural borders between the different regions of the country and as a result, the feudalistic nakharars had significant influence over the regions or provinces in which they were based.

Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion in 301 AD, in establishing this church.

In 436 the bishops of Armenia consulted Proclus upon certain doctrines prevalent in their country and attributed to Theodore of Mopsuestia, asking for their condemnation.

. am is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD ) for Armenia.

The dram (; sign: ; code: AMD ) is the monetary unit of Armenia.

* Air Armenia, by ICAO airline code

* Armenia, WMO country code

In some cases, an entire country code domain has been re-purposed in its international marketing, such as. am ( Armenia ),. fm ( Federated States of Micronesia ),. cd ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ),. dj ( Djibouti ), and. tv ( Tuvalu ) for sites delivering various forms of audiovisual content.

* Andorra, by ISO 3166-1 country code

* Aruba, by ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code

*. ai, the ISO Internet 2-letter country code ( ccTLD ) for Anguilla

* Azerbaijan, a Eurasian country, designated by the 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code

* Saint Barthélemy using ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code

* Belgium's ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code

In general, the three-letter code uses the ISO 3166-1 country code for the first two letters and the first letter of the name of the currency ( D for dollar, for instance ) as the third letter.

* Democratic Republic of the Congo's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

** ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are the most widely used of the three, and used most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains ( with a few exceptions ).

** ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes.

** ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of script ( writing system ) independence, and hence useful for people or systems using non-Latin scripts.

* ISO 3166-3, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries, defines codes for country names which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 since its first publication in 1974.

The first edition of ISO 3166 was published in 1974, which included only alphabetic country codes.

The IBAN consists of up to 34 alphanumeric characters: first the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, then two check digits, and finally a country-specific Basic Bank Account Number ( BBAN ).

ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes ( alpha and numeric ), and references to minor units in three tables:

The first two letters of the code are the two letters of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes ( which are also used as the basis for national top-level domains on the Internet ) and the third is usually the initial of the currency itself.

There is also a three-digit code number assigned to each currency, in the same manner as there is also a three-digit code number assigned to each country as part of ISO 3166.

ISO 3166 never assigns country codes beginning with " X ", these codes being assigned for privately customized use only ( reserved, never for official codes )— for instance, the ISO 3166-based NATO country codes ( STANAG 1059, 9th edition ) use " X " codes for imaginary exercise countries ranging from XXB for " Brownland " to XXR for " Redland ", as well as for major commands such as XXE for SHAPE or XXS for SACLANT.