| Brief
Pre-Communist History |
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| • | Very ancient
culture: archaeologists have |
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| traced
inhabitation of Armenian highlands |
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| to Paleolithic
era. |
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| • | 95 to 55 B.C.:
Pinnacle of ancient |
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| Armenian empire
under Tigran the Great. |
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| • | 1500-1918: Part
of Ottoman Empire, |
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| Russian influence
over region increases, |
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| Armenian
nationalist movements violently |
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| put down by
Ottomans. |
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