Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked nation located in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus area; as well as is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the Lachin corridor under a Russian peacekeeping force, as well as Azerbaijan to the eastern, as well as Iran and also the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the resources and also largest city.

Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, autonomous nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. The first Armenian state of Urartu was established in 860 BC, and also by the sixth century BC it was changed by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its elevation under Tigranes the Great in the first century BC and became the very first state in the world to take on Christianity as its official religion, in 301. 

The ancient Armenian kingdom was split between the Oriental as well as Sasanian Realms around the early fifth century. Under the Bagratuni empire, the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia was brought back in the 9th century. Declining as a result of the wars against the Byzantines, the kingdom fell in 1045 as well as Armenia was soon after gotten into by the Seljuk Turks. An Armenian principality and later a kingdom Cilician Armenia was located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea between the 11th as well as 14th centuries.

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the traditional Armenian homeland composed of Eastern Armenia and Western Armenia came under the guideline of the Footrest as well as Persian realms, repeatedly ruled by either of the two over the centuries. By the 19th century, Eastern Armenia had actually been dominated by the Russian Realm, while a lot of the western parts of the standard Armenian homeland stayed under Footrest rule. Throughout World War I, 1.5 million Armenians residing in their genealogical lands in the Footrest Realm were methodically eradicated in the Armenian genocide. 

In 1918, complying with the Russian Transformation, all non-Russian countries stated their self-reliance after the Russian Realm ceased to exist, bring about the establishment of the First Republic of Armenia. By 1920, the state was included into the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and in 1922 came to be a founding participant of the Soviet Union. In 1936, the Transcaucasian state was liquified, changing its basic states, consisting of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, right into full Union republics. The modern Republic of Armenia ended up being independent in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.