Important Cities
- Yerevan(Capital)
- Gyumri
- Vanadzor
- Ejmiatsin
- Ijevan
- Vardenis
- Alaverdi
- Kapan
- Hrazdan
Main Attractions
- Matenadaran Museum
- Ashtarak Ancient Fortress
- Tatev Monastry
- Lake Sevan
- Church of St. Karapet
- Erebuni Fortress
- Geghard Temple
- Gandzasar and Amaras Monasteries
- Erebuni Museum
- Echmiadzin Museum
Main Industries
- Metal-cutting Machine Tools
- Software Development
- Silk Fabric
- Food Processing
- Jewelry Manufacturing
- Diamond Processing
- Electric Motors
- Hosiery
- Shoes
Hunted Facts on armenia
- Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան, Hayastan, Հայք, Hayq), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in the Southern Caucasus (Transcaucasus), bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south.
- Armenia is a landlocked country in the southern Caucasus.
- The Republic of Armenia, covering an area of 30000 square kilometres (11,600sq.mi), is located in the north-east of the Armenian Highland (covering 400000km² or 154,000sq.mi), otherwise known as historic Armenia and considered as the original homeland of Armenians.
- Armenia is bounded by Turkey on the west, Azerbaijan on the east (the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan is on its southwestern border), Iran on the southwest, and Georgia on the north.
- Armenia is generally understood to have included NE Turkey, the area covered by the modern republic of Armenia (the eastern part of ancient Armenia), and parts of Iranian Azerbaijan.
- Armenia declared itself independent of the USSR in Aug., 1991, and Levon Ter-Petrossian was elected as first president of the republic.
- Armenia (country), republic in western Asia, bordered by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east and the Azerbaijani exclave of Naxçývan (Nakhichevan’) on the southwest, Iran on the south, and Turkey on the west.
- Armenia was the most ethnically homogeneous republic of the 15 republics that made up the USSR, and the country is still characterized by a high degree of ethnic homogeneity.
- Armenia’s constitution was approved by referendum in July 1995, replacing the 1978 constitution of the Soviet period.
- Although the name "Armenia" occurs twice in the Vulgate, the regular biblical designation of the country is "Ararat", a name which is doubtless identical with the "Urartu" of the cuneiform inscriptions.
