Skip to content- Armenakan Party · Institution Politics The Armenian party founded at Van in 1885 under Mkrtich Portukalian, the first Armenian political party, which joined the Democratic Liberal Party in 1921.
- Armenian Democratic Liberal Party · Institution PoliticsDiaspora The Armenian party, also called Ramgavar, formed on 1 October 1921 by the union of four parties, which has held to the Church of Etchmiadzin in the diaspora.
- Armenian Revolutionary Federation · Institution PoliticsDiaspora The Armenian political party, also called Dashnaktsutyun, founded at Tiflis in 1890, the leading party of the First Republic and a major party of the diaspora.
- Artsakh · Place PoliticsHistoryChristianity The Armenian name of the historic region known internationally as Nagorno-Karabakh, and of the Armenian republic that governed it from 1991 until its dissolution in 2024.
- Ashot III the Merciful · Person HistoryPolitics Bagratid king of Armenia from 952 to 977, who moved the capital to Ani and began its golden age.
- Battle of Avarayr · Event HistoryChristianityPolitics The battle of June 451 in which the Persian army defeated the Armenians under Vardan Mamikonian, who died defending the Christian faith against Persian rule.
- Battle of Sardarabad · Event HistoryPolitics The battle of late May 1918 at Sardarabad, in which the Armenians stopped the Ottoman army and made possible the First Republic of Armenia.
- Cilician Armenia · Place HistoryPolitics The Armenian principality and kingdom on the southeast coast of Anatolia, founded in 1080 and ruled by Armenian dynasties until it fell to the Mamluks in 1375.
- First Republic of Armenia · Event PoliticsHistory The independent Armenian state of 1918 to 1920, proclaimed on 28 May 1918 and ended by the Turkish invasion and Sovietization in December 1920.
- Gagik I · Person HistoryPolitics Bagratid king of Armenia from 989 to 1020, in whose reign Ani reached the height of its power and wealth and its cathedral was completed.
- Hnchak Party · Institution PoliticsDiaspora The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, a Marxist Armenian party founded at Geneva in 1887 that sought the freedom of Ottoman Armenia through revolution.
- Levon the Great · Person HistoryPolitics The first king of Cilician Armenia, who ruled from 1199 to 1219, received his crown with the approval of the pope and the German emperor and allied his kingdom with the Crusaders.
- Mamikonian, Vardan · Person HistoryChristianityPolitics Commander of the Armenian army who died leading the revolt against Persian rule at Avarayr in 451, and is honored by the Armenian Church as a saint.
- Provinces of Armenia · Concept HistoryPolitics The ten provinces, or marzes, and the capital city into which the Republic of Armenia is divided, with their administrative centers.
- Tigranes the Great · Person HistoryPolitics King of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC, who conquered northern Mesopotamia and Syria, took the title King of Kings and founded Tigranakert.