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1 Iranian civilian injured by stray fire [76] 40,000 Azerbaijanis [77] and 100,000 Armenians displaced [78] [79] [80] The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories. It was a major escalation of an unresolved conflict over the ...
Republic of Armenia. A horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and orange, defaced with the presidential seal at its centre. The national flag of Armenia ( Armenian: Հայաստանի դրոշ ), also known as the tricolour ( Armenian: Եռագույն, Yeṙaguyn ), consists of three horizontal bands of equal width, red on the top, blue in the ...
Committee of Union and Progress. The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the ...
Russians in Armenia. Russians in Armenia ( Russian: Русские в Армении, romanized : Russkiye v Armenii, Armenian: Ռուսները Հայաստանում, romanized : Rrusnery Hayastanum) are ethnic Russians living in Armenia, where they make up the second largest minority (after the Yazidis ). [1] In the 2022 census, there were ...
t. e. The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, [a] also known as Soviet Armenia, [b] or simply Armenia, [d] was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Soviet Armenia bordered the Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia and the independent states of Iran and Turkey.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization ( CSTO) [note 3] is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, [note 1] Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, formed in 2002. The Collective Security Treaty has its origins in the Soviet Armed Forces, which was replaced in 1992 ...
38,000 dead (2017 estimate) [10] 31,000 [11] –130,000 [9] [12] injured. The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake ( Armenian: Սպիտակի երկրաշարժ, romanized : Spitaki yerkrasharzh ), occurred on December 7 at 11:41 local time with a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X ...
