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Armenia is a small, rugged, mountainous, landlocked nation in the Caucasus, the crossroads of Europe and Asia, which gained its independence in the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1989. Although it is in Asia geographically (located on the Asian side of the Caucasus, the Border between Europe and Asia), it is considered European because of its strong and ancient links with Europe. Present-day Armenia comprises Eastern Armenia, only half the historic homeland. The Armenians in Western Armenia, with its iconic Mount Ararat, were driven out and mostly killed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 in a genocide that to this day chills relations between Armenia and Turkey. In addition, many Armenians live in other countries, in the "Armenian Diaspora." Armenia was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as its state religion in AD 301.

Cities

Yerevan (pop. 1,100,000 in 2006), founded in the eighth century BC, is the capital and has always been the chief city. Gyumri, or Kumayri (called Leninakan from 1924 to 1992), with a population of 120,000 in 1989, was the second largest city until it was devastated by an earthquake in December 1988; it has now recovered with a population of 148,000. Vanadzor (formerly Kirovakan) is third with a population of 106,000.

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Latvian Armenians: Past, present and future

Latvia has always distinguished itself from the other countries of the Baltic area. Since the independence of the 1990s, after 25 years, Latvia presents itself in a more European appearance. Much has changed here, but one thing has remained the same: tolerance. Although Armenian traces are not so old here, yet they are stable and show trends of development.

Community history

The Armenians appeared in Latvia at the end of the nineteenth century. According to reports, 49 Armenians lived in the province of Livonia (Vidzeme) in 1897; thirty-six were in Riga, while fourteen had settled in the neighboring province of Curlandia. Their number had climbed to 121 in 1913. They belonged both to the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. Those Armenian merchants mostly came to Latvia from the Ottoman Empire, Iran and Russia.

A group of Armenian students studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute in the 1900s, including famous revolutionary Stepan Shahumyan, who studied chemistry in 1900-1902. However, he was unable to graduate because he was expelled due to his creation of a Marxist group and his revolutionary activities. As the editor of the “Ararat” magazine of Riga, Alexandre Geronian, says in an interview with me, unlike the rev