Armenia

Last modified: 1998-01-07 by herman de wael
Keywords: armenia | hayastan | caucasus | europe | commonwealth of independent states | geycha | zangesur |
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by Mark Sensen

• A presentation of Armenia
• Meaning of the colours
• Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)
• Geycha and Zangesur

See also:

• the Armenian page maintained by the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan. It contains a number of images of historical flags and arms of Armenia.
• Armenia in CIA World FactBook

A presentation of Armenia

Full name: Republic of Armenia.
Location: Caucasus.
Status: Internationally recognized independent state since 23 September 1991.
Notes: Historical Armenia was the first nation to declare Christianity its official religion.
The flag was originally hoisted during short-lived Armenia independence after World War 1.
Stuart Notholt

Meaning of the colours

The flag represents the people of Armenia. The red stands for the spilt blood of all Armenian soldiers, present and past. The orange stands for the fertile land and the farmers that work on it. The blue stands for the sky.

Raffi Kazanjian - 1996-06-27

Geycha and Zangesur

by Jaume Olle

Several new states have been reported in the former Soviet Union:

GEYCHA AND ZANGESUR: Today under armenian control, the state was proclaimed in March 1992 for the Azeri population near Lake Sevan. The flag is horizontal black, red, green, blue with a crescent and wolf (I dont know the color of the crescent and wolf, but probably white).
Jaume Olle - 1996-09-12