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- Republic of Armenia
- own names: Hajkakan Hanrapetuthjun, Hayastan
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National flag,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flaggen und Wappen der Welt
to 1919,
unofficial national flag,
Source, by: Flaggen und Wappen der Welt
1919–1921,
National flag,
ratio = 2:3
Source, by: Flaggen und Wappen der Welt
1922–1936,
Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World
1922–1927,
Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: World Statesmen
1927–1937,
Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: World Statesmen
1937–1940,
Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: World Statesmen
1940–1952,
Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: World Statesmen
1952–1991,
Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flaggen und Wappen
look also:
Flag history of the soviet republics of the USSR
The flag of Armenia was introduced on 15th of June in 1919. It shows three horizontal stripes in red, blue and orange. Red stands for freedom and independence and for the blood, which was given in the fight for that, blue for the countryside and orange for the energy and the bravery of the people. Following other sources stands red the blood which was given in the fight for liberty, blue stands for the heaven and orange for the fertile soil of the country. Before 1919 was unofficially, and mainly at in exile living Armenians, a red-blue-green flag in use. As the Red Army in the April 1921 occupied the land, was inroduced for the Armenian Socialistic Soviet Republic a red flag with golden initials, and maintained in this form until the creation of the Trans Caucasian Federation under inclusion of Armenia in the year 1922. From 1922 till 1936, was additionally to use the flag of the Federation, as well a red flag. It was not dissimilar to the flag of Soviet Russia between 1918 and 1924. The star with hammer and sickle in it, was positioned in the leech of the flag, and in a semicircle around it the initials of the Federation. After the end of the federation Armenia joined the USSR, and undertook a flag, how used by all Soviet Republics from 1937, red flags with golden initials, added by hammer, sickle and star in gold. On 17th of December in 1952 was adoped a new flag with three horizontal stripes in proportion 3:2:3 in red, blue and red. In the leech, near the flagstaff, the flag showed in the upper red stripe hammer, sickle and star, again. On 24th of August in 1990 the flag from 1919 got reintroduced as national flag, and on 23rd of September in 1991 as official symbol of the state, again.
Source:
Die Welt der Flaggen,
Flaggen und Wappen der Welt,
Flaggen Enzyklopädie,
Alle Flaggen alle Staaten
since 1992,
Coat of arms of Armenia,
Source: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1936–1992,
Coat of arms of Armenia,
Source:
TheSign 1998, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1930–1936,
Coat of arms of the Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Republic,
Source:
Jam123, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
1918–1922,
Coat of arms of Armenia,
Source:
commons.wikimedia.org
The current coat of arms of Armenia was introduced on 19th of April in 1992. It goes back to the coat of arms of the republic (1918–1922). The shield is divided into four in the colours red and blue and shows the heraldic symbols of the four royal houses of the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia in the fields: Artashesian, Arshakuni, Bagratuni and Rubinian. The golden central shield shows Mount Ararat with the contours of Noah's Ark. Shield holders are an eagle and a lion. They stand for the Armenian Apostolic Church and the royal house of the Bagratuni. An unlabeled ribbon, sword and chain (freedom struggle and independence), and a bundle of ears and a branch (creativity and peacefulness) serve as a pedestal.
Source: Wikipedia (D)
Aircraft Roundel,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)
Location:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Map of the country:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Area: 11.506 square miles
Inhabitants: 2.972.900 (2018), thereof 98.1% Armenian (Haik), 1.2% Yezidi (Kurd)
Religions: 92.6% Armenian Apostolic Christians, 1.1% none
Density of Population: 258 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Eriwan (Yerewan), 1.077.600 inh. (2018)
official Language: Armenian
Currency: 1 Dram (d., dr., AMD) = 100 Luma
Time Zone: GMT + 4 h
Source:
Wikipedia (D),
CIA World Factbook
900 B.C. · to the Urartu Empire
550 B.C. · to the Akhemenide Empire
3rd cent. B.C. · independent Armenia
66 B.C. · Roman supremacy
387 · division between Byzantium and Persia
11th cent. · Byzantian conquest
1242 · Mongolian conquest
1472 · Persian conquest
1546 · conquest by the Ottoman Empire
1828 · conquest by Russia, Government of Yerevan
1918 · end of the First World War, establishment of the State of Armenia on the area of the former Russian Governments of Jerevan and Yelisavetpol
1920 · Soviet-Russian conquest of Armenia, the former Government of Yelisavetpol (and in this way Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhitshevan) becomes annexed to Azerbaijan, Armenia becomes a soviet republic within the der USSR (Soviet Union)
1922 · Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan become under Force fusioned to the Trans-Caucasisian Federation
7th of July 1923 · establishment of the Autonomous District of the Nagorno-Karabakhians (Armenians) within Azerbaijan
1936 · dissolution of the Trans-Caucasisian Federation, once more joining of Armenia to the USSR
1988 · the territorial council (soviet) of Nagorno-Karabakh demands the annexation to Armenia, because of that there take place pogroms against Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh
1989–1994 · ethnical civil war in and for Nagorno-Karabakh, invasion of Soviet-Russian troops, it comes into being war between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Soviet-Russian troops and troops of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan declares the autonomy-status of Nagorno-Karabakh for terminated
1990 · Nagorno-Karabakh declares itself for a republic (Republic of Artsakh)
23th of August 1991 · Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union
30th of August 1991 · Azerbaijan declares its independence from the Soviet Union
8th of December 1991 · ultimate disintegration of the remaining Soviet Union
1992 · secession of Geycha-Zangesur
1993 · troops of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh conquer large parts of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh (now directly bordering to Armenia) becomes economical associated to Armenia but maintains the status of a republic
1994 · general cease fire
October/November 2020 · renewed fighting for the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh troops retreat fighting from the attacks of the Azerbaijani troops (supported by Turkey and Islamist militias), and within weeks, large areas in the south of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will be lost to Azerbaijan before the ceasefire, Russia provides a peacekeeping force
Source: Atlas zur Geschichte,
Wikipedia (D),
Volker Preuß
The name "Armenia" is of Persian origin. The Armenians themselves call their country "Hayastan", as they call themselves "Hayak (Haik).
Source: Die Völker der Erde
