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Armenia and is
However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.
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 trying to address its environmental problems.
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.
Armenia is located in southern Transcaucasia, the region southwest of Russia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
The largest of these, Mount Aragats, high, is also the highest point in Armenia.
Most of Armenia is drained by the Araks or its tributary, the Hrazdan, which flows from Lake Sevan.
The Demographics of Armenia is about the demographic features of the population of Armenia, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
Politics of Armenia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of government, and of a platform multi-party system.
For the most part however, Armenia is considered one of the more pro-democratic nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The observance of human rights in Armenia is uneven and is marked by shortcomings.
In addition to the Yerevan administrative region, Armenia is split into ten administrative divisions, known as marzer ( singular: marz ); these are Ararat, Aragatsotn, Armavir, Gegharkunik, Kotayk, Lori, Shirak, Syunik, Tavush, and Vayots Dzor.
Armenia is the second most densely populated of the former Soviet republics because of its small size.
Armenia is now a net energy exporter, although it does not have sufficient generating capacity to replace Metsamor, which is under international pressure to close.
Armenia is a food importer, and its mineral deposits ( gold, bauxite ) are small.
Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.
Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.
" Armenia is a lower middle-income country.
Furthermore, the study concluded that despite its record growth on most macro-economic metrics, Armenia is " low and lagging " in competitiveness.
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.
From 2011 to 2013, the European Union is expected to advance at least € 157. 3 million ($ 208 million ) in aid to Armenia.

Armenia and bordered
Armenia Township is bordered by Columbia Township to the north, Troy Township to the east, Canton Township to the southeast and Tioga County to the west.
Canton Townships is bordered by Troy Township to the north, Granville and Leroy Townships to the east, Sullivan and Lycoming Counties to the south, Tioga County to the west and Armenia Township to the northwest.
Columbia Township is bordered by Wells and South Creek Townships to the north, Springfield Township to the east, Troy Township to the southeast, Armenia Township to the south and Tioga County to the west.
Troy Township is bordered by Springfield Township to the north, east and east, West Burlington Township to the east, Granville Township to the south and east, Canton Township to the south, Armenia Township to the west and Columbia Township to the northwest.
It is bordered by Turkey from the west and the south with a length of 130. 5 km bordrerline, where Arax River separates Armenia from Turkey.

Armenia and on
Hostilities along Armenian-Azerbaijan border disrupted crucial supply routes which Armenia was greatly dependent on.
Armenia became independent from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic on 28 May 1918 as the Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA ).
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, beginning on 23 September 1991 the official name of the nation has been the Republic of Armenia ( Armenian: Hayastani Hanrapetut ' yun ).
Despite the economic blockade of Turkey on Armenia, every day dozens of Turkish trucks laden with goods enter Armenia through Georgia.
Armenia doesn't seem to be interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( a group of 12 former Soviet republics ) or with members of the international community on environmental issues.
* 1988 – Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6. 9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25, 000, injures 15, 000 and leaves 400, 000 homeless.
Around the same time, perhaps in 287, Persia relinquished claims on Armenia and recognized Roman authority over territory to the west and south of the Tigris.
Narseh did not advance from Armenia and Mesopotamia, leaving Galerius to lead the offensive in 298 with an attack on northern Mesopotamia via Armenia.
Influenced partly by the fact that Gregory was the son of his father's enemy, he ordered Gregory imprisoned for twelve ( some sources indicate fourteen ) years in a pit on the Ararat Plain under the present day church of Khor Virap located near the historical city Artashat in Armenia.
The most earthquake-prone part of Turkey is an arc-shaped region stretching from the general vicinity of Kocaeli to the area north of Lake Van on the border with Armenia and Georgia.
In ancient Armenia, the Tree of Life ( Կենաց Ծառ ) was a religious symbol and was drawn on walls of fortresses and carved on the armor of warriors.

Armenia and north
The valleys of the Debet and Akstafa rivers form the chief routes into Armenia from the north as they pass through the mountains.
Tamar's realm stretched from the Greater Caucasus crest in the north to Erzurum in the south, and from the Zygii in the northwest to the vicinities of Ganja in the southeast, forming a pan-Caucasian empire, with the loyal Zachariad regime in northern and central Armenia, Shirvan as a vassal and Trebizond as an ally.
Uthman's realm extended in the west to Morocco, in the east to South east of present day Pakistan, and in the north to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
According to most classic authors, a district which was bounded on the southwest by Pontus, on the west by the Black Sea as far as the river Corax ( probably the present day Bzyb River, Abkhazia, Georgia ), on the north by the chain of the Greater Caucasus, which lay between it and Asiatic Sarmatia, on the east by Iberia and Montes Moschici ( now the Lesser Caucasus ), and on the south by Armenia.
While in the north, he left Afranius in charge of Armenia.
Hugh III of Cyprus, nominal king of Jerusalem, landed in Acre to defend that city, while Baibars marched as far north as Armenia, which was at that time under Mongol control.
Soon after the conquest of the north bank of the Euphrates, other Roman forces moved on Osroene from Armenia, taking Anthemusia, a town south-west of Edessa.
At that time, Rome had delegates from a multitude of nations, from Armenia to Russia, Greece and various parts of north and east Africa.
After this defeat Tigranes withdrew north to Armenia to regroup which left Lucullus free to put Tigranocerta under siege.
Khan was the title of the rulers of various break-away states later reintegrated in Iran, e. g. 1747 – 1808 Khanate of Ardabil ( in northwestern Iran east of Sarab and west of the southwest corner of the Caspian Sea ), 1747 – 1813 Khanate of Khoy ( northwestern Iran, north of Lake Urmia, between Tabriz and Lake Van ), 1747 – 1829 Khanate of Maku ( in extreme northwestern Iran, northwest of Khoy, and 60 miles south of Yerevan, Armenia ), 1747 – 1790s Khanate of Sarab ( northwestern Iran east of Tabriz ), 1747 – c. 1800 Khanate of Tabriz ( capital of Iranian Azerbeidjan ).
It was bounded by Caucasian Iberia ( present-day Georgia ) to the west, by Sarmatia to the north, by the Caspian Sea to the east, and by the provinces of Artsakh and Utik in Armenia to the west along the river Kura.
Shirakatsi specifies that Artsakh and Utik are “ now detached ” from Armenia and included in “ Aghvank ,” and he takes care to distinguish this new entity from the old “ Aghvank strictly speaking ” ( Բուն Աղվանք ) situated north of the river Kura.
It also often occupied land as far north as Armenia proper.
In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".
The region covers 5, 500 km² and borders Armenia ( 221 km ) to the east and north, Iran ( 179 km ) to the south and west, and Turkey ( 15 km ) to the northwest.
Its established borders were with Kuban People's Republic and the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus in the north, Ottoman Empire, Democratic Republic of Armenia in the south, and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in the southeast.
It is widely held by various authors that Nakh nations had a close connection of some sort to the Hurrian and Urartian civilizations in modern day Armenia and Kurdistan, largely due to linguistic similarities ( Nakh shares the most roots with known Hurrian and Urartian )- either that the Nakhs were descended from Hurrian tribes, that they were Hurrians who fled north, or that they were closely related and possibly included at points in the state.
The Church also claims the presence in Georgia of the Apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus, coming north from Armenia.

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