Armenia

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, was a mountainous country in the Southern Caucasus region of Eurasia. It shared land borders with Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
== History ==
=== Post-Soviet Independence ===
On 23 August 1990, Armenia declared independence, becoming the first non-Baltic republic to secede from the Soviet Union. When, in 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved, Armenia's independence was officially recognized. Levon Ter-Petrosyan was popularly elected the first President of the newly independent Republic of Armenia on 16 October 1991. He had risen to prominence by leading the Karabakh movement for the unification of the Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh. Ter-Petrosyan led the country alongside Defense Minister Vazgen Sargsyan through the Nagorno-Karabakh War with neighboring Azerbaijan. The Karabakh war ended after a Russian-brokered cease-fire was put in place in 1994. The war was a success for the Karabakh Armenian forces who managed to capture 16% of Azerbaijan's internationally recognised territory including Nagorno-Karabakh itself.
=== Caucasus War ===
See Full Article: Caucasus War
== Government and Politics ==
=== Administrative Regions ===
=== Foreign Relations ===
== Economy ==
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