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Armenia

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Country in western Asia, bounded east by Azerbaijan, north by Georgia, west by Turkey, and south by Iran. Government Armenia has a multiparty presidential political system. Under its 1995 constitution, there is a directly-elected executive president, who serves a maximum of two five-year terms. Candidates must secure over 50% of the vote, with a second-round run-off election held if this is not achieved in the first round. Following a referendum in December 2015, the constitution was changed to restrict future presidents to one seven-year term and to increase the authority of the legislature in relation to the president. This moved Armenia from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary executive. There is a single-chamber legislature, the national assembly (Azgayin Zhoghov), comprising at least 101 members elected for four-year terms by proportional representation from party lists based on the national and district shares of the vote. To encourage stable government, the party winning most…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
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The Republic of Armenia is a landlocked country in SW Asia, mostly consisting of a rugged plateau, criss-crossed by long faults. Movements along the faults cause earth tremors and occasionally major earthquakes. Armenia's highest point is Mount Aragats, at 4,090m [13,149ft] above sea level. The…
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From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article A-Z Entries
Western Asian people descended from several ethnic groups, including the Urarteans (Ararateans) and groups from Thrace, Phrygia, and Thessaly, who merged in about 600 b.c.e. Armenians live in a region of rugged mountains and extinct volcanoes located between present-day Turkey on the west, …
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Located at the flashpoint between the Roman and Persian Empires, “Fortress Armenia” stretched through eastern Anatolia to the Zagros Mountains. Armenia was a kingdom established during the decline of Seleucid control. Its independence ended with its incorporation into the Roman Empire in the third…
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From Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices
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POPULATION 3,262,200 ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANITY 90 percent ARMENIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 5.8 percent YAZIDIS 1.2 percent OTHER (INCLUDING OTHER CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM, AND BAHÁ 'Í) 3.3 percent Introduction Armenia is a mostly Christian country in southwestern Asia. It is located in ( 1498)Southern…
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From Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Late Antique Literature Full text Article LATE ANTIQUE LITERATURE BY LANGUAGE AND TRADITION
The Armenian language – Hayeren in the language itself – may date from about 1500 BCE , having been brought to the area of the southern Caucasus and eastern Anatolia by a group emigrating from the northeast and eventually replacing its predecessor Urartian culture. From north of the Black Sea, or…
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From Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures
ALTERNATIVE NAMES In Armenian, Armenia is called Hayastan and Armenians are known as Hai . LOCATION Armenia is a small (29,800 km 2 ) landlocked mountainous country (37.2% mountains) in Eurasia. The remainder of the land is a combination of pastures (29.8%), woodlands (12%), farmland (3.2%), and…
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From Political Handbook of the World 2018-2019
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Republic of Armenia Political Status: Armenian Republic established on November 29, 1920; joined the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 30, 1922; became a constituent republic of the USSR on December 5, 1936; independence…
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From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
I. Christian origins - II. Architecture - III. Sculpture and painting. The oldest Christian sources attribute the evangelization of Armenia more or less to the 2nd c., under the impetus of the dynasty of * Edessa : the apostle Thaddaeus—or rather * Addai , a Syrian disciple sent to Edessa to cure * …
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From Political Handbook of the World 2016-2017
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Republic of Armenia Hayastani Hanrapetoutioun Political Status: Armenian Republic established on November 29, 1920; joined the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 30, 1922; became a constituent republic of the USSR on…
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An INDO-EUROPEAN Caucasoid people. Modern Armenians are thought to descend from a mixture of native aborigines, URARTIANS , HAYASA , and Indo-Europeans; the latter migrated from the Balkans to the Caucasus during the late 2nd and early 1st millennia BC . Currently, there are approximately 3.3…
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