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The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, also known as the Artsakh Liberation War in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, was an armed conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the ...
Georgian–Armenian War (1918) First Republic of Armenia Georgia: Inconclusive. Armenia gains the province of Lori. With the intervention of Great Britain, a truce was concluded between Armenia and Georgia. Turkish–Armenian War/Soviet invasion of Armenia (1920) First Republic of Armenia: Turkey Russian SFSR: Defeat. All of Western Armenia is ...
The Battle of Kars [a] was the largest battle of the Turkish–Armenian War, which took place on October 30, 1920.It was fought between forces loyal to the Grand National Assembly under the command of Kâzım Karabekir and the army of the First Republic of Armenia.
Even prior to the war, Russia had possessed a military base in Armenia as part of a military alliance with Armenia, and thus was obligated by treaty to defend Armenia in the case of a war. Like in Syria and in Libya's ongoing civil war, Russia and NATO-member Turkey therefore had opposing interests. [ 339 ]
Armenian War may refer to: Armenian-Parthian War, 87-85 BCE; Roman-Parthian War of 58-63 CE; Georgian-Armenian War, 1918; Armenian–Azerbaijani war (disambiguation ...
French Armenian Legion: Armenian-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire: Turkish War of Independence: June 16-December 2, 1920 Republic of Armenia: Armenian-Soviet War Russian SFSR: Russian Civil War: September–November 29, 1920 Republic of Armenia: Anti-Soviet Resistance Russian SFSR: February 13, 1921 – July 13, 1921
Tensions escalated again in July–August 2014 with ceasefire breaches by Azerbaijan taking place and President Aliyev, threatening Armenia with war. [182] [183] [184] Rather than receding, the tension in the area increased in April 2016 with the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes when the worst clashes since the 1994 ceasefire erupted. [185]
Elishe (Old Armenian: Եղիշէ, romanized: Ełišē, Modern Armenian pronunciation [jɛʁiˈʃɛ], 410 – 475) [1] was an Armenian historian from the time of late antiquity, best known as the author of History of Vardan and the Armenian War, a history of the fifth-century Armenian revolt led by Vardan Mamikonian against the suppression of Christianity under Sassanid Iranian rule.