Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): from 1918 to 1920 the province was under the administration of the democratic republic of armenia as the vanand province -lrb- with the city of kars as its capital -rrb-.
Output (English): from 1918 to 1920 the region was under the control of the democratic republic of armenia as the vanand province -lrb- with the city of kars as its capital -rrb-.