THE BACKGROUND OF THE NATION OF

Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat. The original In , Arsacid Armenia was the first sovereign nation to accept Christianity as a state religion. The later fell under Byzantine, Sassanid.

The most horrific massacre took place in April during World War I, when the Turks ordered the deportation of the Armenian population to the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia. Just as positive change began to come to the region, however, the nation and its education system suffered the devastating blow of a massive earthquake in The Seljuk Empire soon started to collapse. By the time of Arab invasion in Armenia, ruled by prince Theodore Rshtuni, was virtually independent. lasted until , when it regained its independence from the weakened under Ashot I of Armenia. In , after Abdulhamid had felt compelled to promise Britain, France, and Russia that he would carry out reforms, large-scale systematic massacres took place in the Armenian provinces. The Armenian reform package was presented as a solution by appointing an inspector general over Armenian issues. The most significant among those was the Federation of Khamsa in Artsakh today's Nagorno-Karabakh , which consisted of five allied principalities. Shirakatsi's writing gained renown outside Armenia for pioneering ideas such as tailoring material according to age and emphasizing not only content but methods of teaching. Turkey has an anti-Armenian policy. One of the first institutions of higher education, the Academy of Tatev, was founded in the ninth century. Taking advantage of the favourable political conditions created by the World War I, they began the "final resolution of the Armenian question" on April 24th, , by executing hundreds of Armenian intellectuals of Constantinople without trial. You cannot just turn this page. The musical accompaniment can be played on traditional instruments or sung or both. During this history there were periods of independence as an Armenian nation, though often with the nation divided into separate kingdoms because of internal struggles for supremacy by individual families. For many years, the Armenian culture and its people dispersed, with their cultural life developing primarily in centers abroad, in Moscow, Venice, Tiblisi, and elsewhere. The eruption of violence coincided with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the region; she made a statement imploring both sides to honor a ceasefire for the area that was first contested in the s, Nagorno-Karabakh. Although for centuries most Armenians lived in highlands tending animals, today 68 percent occupy the nation's towns and urban areas. The cultivation of memory is presented as a national duty. By the sixteenth century, increasing numbers of schools were forced to close as the land was invaded repeatedly. In February a peaceful, democratic movement for the reunification with Armenia began in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the regional Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region adopted a resolution seeking transfer of Karabakh from Azerbaijan to Armenia, as a realization of the right of the peoples under alien domination to self-determination. It was the first country in the world to officially embrace Christianity as its religion c. In addition, just days prior, on 5 August , Mihran Damadian of the Armenian National Union, the de facto Armenian administration in Cilicia, declared the independence of Cilicia as an Armenian autonomous republic under French protectorate. At the end of the war, the victorious powers sought to divide up the Ottoman Empire. In response to Armenian nationalist stirrings, the Turks massacred thousands of Armenians in and The new Armenian state established very close relations with European countries and played a very important role during the Crusades, providing the Christian armies a safe heaven and provision on their way towards Jerusalem. Another campaign was led by Emperor Lucius Verus in —, after Vologases IV of Parthia had invaded Armenia and installed his chief general on its throne. From the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, libraries issued forth and the first schoolbooks were pioneered. Conditions in the earthquake region continue to be dire, with tens of thousands of people still living in—and business and schools being conducted in—the temporary housing they were granted at the time of the quake.