Armenia is the first country in the world that adopted Christianity as the national religion in 301 AD.
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Armenia is one of the most ancient nations,
The capital Yerevan has turned 2805 this year which is older than Rome by 30 years
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When European taxonomists were renaming all the organisms of the world in Linnean taxonomy, the word for the color “orange” was instead apricot, which comes from Armenia. So many orange bugs, mushrooms, birds, and so on have the species epithet “armeniaca”, “armeniacus” etc since apricots are called *Prunus armeniaca*
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Here comes moment of glory. As most of us loves to talk how badass we are, do something instead.
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The co-founder of reddit is Armenian
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There was a Lesser Armenia in Southern Anatolia on the Mediterranean Sea.
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1. Despite being located way in the South, Armenia is colder than Sweden
2. First Christian state, church belongs to Oriental Orthodox Christian branch, which is different from Catholicism and Orthodoxy, sharing its branch with Copts (Ancient Egyptians) and Ethiopians (ancient Kushites)
3. Armenians are genetically the closest to the other ancient nation — Assyrians
4. Armenian co-founded Reddit, where I write this, kudos to Alexis Ohanian.
5. Armenians arranged the Modern anthem of Turkey and standardized modern Turkish language. Armenian also made the logo of far right Turkish party MHP.
6. Armenia is the only surviving country from the first map in the world
7. Leader of Hungarian Nazi party during Hitler was part Armenian
8. Armenia is the second surviving country which ever used cuneiform as a writing system, along with Iran
9. Armenians invented / co-invented MRI, PET, Oil refineries, Color TV, ATM and Moderna vaccine
10. There is an element in Periodic Table named after Armenian — Oganesson, named after the nuclear physicist Yuri Ohanessian
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Long and complicated history.
2 towns of Colombia have thats name
Armenia is the first country in the world that adopted Christianity as the national religion in 301 AD.
Armenia is one of the most ancient nations,
The capital Yerevan has turned 2805 this year which is older than Rome by 30 years
When European taxonomists were renaming all the organisms of the world in Linnean taxonomy, the word for the color “orange” was instead apricot, which comes from Armenia. So many orange bugs, mushrooms, birds, and so on have the species epithet “armeniaca”, “armeniacus” etc since apricots are called *Prunus armeniaca*
Here comes moment of glory. As most of us loves to talk how badass we are, do something instead.
The co-founder of reddit is Armenian
There was a Lesser Armenia in Southern Anatolia on the Mediterranean Sea.
1. Despite being located way in the South, Armenia is colder than Sweden
2. First Christian state, church belongs to Oriental Orthodox Christian branch, which is different from Catholicism and Orthodoxy, sharing its branch with Copts (Ancient Egyptians) and Ethiopians (ancient Kushites)
3. Armenians are genetically the closest to the other ancient nation — Assyrians
4. Armenian co-founded Reddit, where I write this, kudos to Alexis Ohanian.
5. Armenians arranged the Modern anthem of Turkey and standardized modern Turkish language. Armenian also made the logo of far right Turkish party MHP.
6. Armenia is the only surviving country from the first map in the world
7. Leader of Hungarian Nazi party during Hitler was part Armenian
8. Armenia is the second surviving country which ever used cuneiform as a writing system, along with Iran
9. Armenians invented / co-invented MRI, PET, Oil refineries, Color TV, ATM and Moderna vaccine
10. There is an element in Periodic Table named after Armenian — Oganesson, named after the nuclear physicist Yuri Ohanessian