| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Armenia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ar·me·ni·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  är-m  n- , -mny |
| 1. A region and former kingdom of Asia Minor that included present-day Armenia and part of northeast Turkey and northwest Iran. Established in the eighth century b.c., it was probably the first state to adopt Christianity as a national religion (c. a.d. 303). 2. A country of Asia Minor east of Turkey and north of Iran. Acquired by Russia from Persia in 1828, it became a Soviet republic in 1921 and was a constituent republic of the USSR, known as the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, from 1936 to 1991. Yerevan is the capital. Population: 3,548,000.
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