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Sacred mountain in neighboring Turkey where Noah's Ark supposedly landed
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Mount Ararat
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Capital city of Armenia, lying under the foot of the above mountain
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Yerevan
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Armenian name for Armenia
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Hayastan
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Legendary patriarch considered to be the founder of Armenia
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Hayk
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Bronze and Iron Age kingdom in the Armenian highlands
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Urartu
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Empire that the above kingdom was constantly at war with
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Assyrian Empire
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Armenia was conquered in 585 BC by this Persian Empire
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Median Empire
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Under the rule of the above, Armenian converted to this religion
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Zoroastrianism
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Armenia was later controlled by this empire, created by a Macedonian general
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Seleucid Empire
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This king helped Armenia gain freedom from Roman rule in 190 BC
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Artashes I
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Armenia reached its greatest under this king but was defeated by Pompey
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Tigranes II the Great
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Armenian cathedral, built in 301, credited as the world's oldest
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Etchmiadzin Cathedral
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Scholar in the 4th century who invented the Armenian alphabet
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Mesrop Mashtots
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Scholar in the 5th century who wrote History of the Armenians
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Movses Khorenatsi
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Divided since the 4th century, Armenia was later captured by this caliphate
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Umayyad Caliphate
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Armenia regain its independence under this king in the ninth century
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Ashot I
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After Byzantine occupation, Armenia was taken over by this empire in 1071
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Seljuk Empire
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The Mongol invasion was followed by control of this empire
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Ottoman Empire
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Eastern Armenia was taken by this empire in 1828
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Russian Empire
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Rebellions in Western Armenia was met with this 1894-1896 atrocity
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Hamidian Massacres
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Enver Pasha blamed WWI failure on Armenians, leading to this 1915-1923 atrocity
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Armenian Genocide
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Armenia was annexed by this country in 1920
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Soviet Russia
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1988 Earthquake that hit Armenia hard
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Spitak Earthquake
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First president of the Republic of Armenia since its independence in 1991
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Levon Ter-Petrosyan
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Armenia fought over this territory with its eastern neighbor, Azerbaijan
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Nagorno-Karabakh
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