Meet The Only Arab Country Where 97% Are Christians While 0.1% Muslims

Meet The Only Arab Country Where 97% Are Christians While 0.1% Muslims

Armenia is a country in the mountainous Caucasus region between Asia and Europe, and is the former Soviet republic. It is characterized by religious sites among the earliest Christian cultures, including the Greco-Roman Temple of Garni and the Etchmiadzin Cathedral of the 4th century, headquarters of the Armenian Church. Khor Virap Monastery is a pilgrimage site near Mount Ararat, a dormant volcano situated right across Turkey ‘s border. Armenia is also the first nation to declare Christianity as its official religion in 301 A.D., when the illuminator Saint Gregory accused King Tiridates III of converting to Christianity. Until this period, under the religious influence of Zoroastrianism, Armenians are still leaders of Ancient Armenian paganism.

Armenia is a democratic, unitary, multi-party nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. Urartu was established in 860 BC, and was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia in the 6th century BC. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height in the 1st century BC under Tigranes the Great, and in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion. The approved Christianity State Adoption date is 301. In the early 5th century the ancient Armenian empire was split between the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires. In the 9th century the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia was restored under the Bagratuni dynasty. Declining because of the wars against the Byzantines, the empire collapsed in 1045 and the Seljuk Turks conquered Armenia shortly after. Between the 11th and 14th centuries there was an Armenian principality and later a Kingdom of Cilician Armenia on the Mediterranean Sea coast.

Throughout the 16th and 19th centuries, the traditional Armenian homeland consisting of Eastern Armenia and Western Armenia came under the control of the Ottoman and Persian empires, controlled through the centuries twice by one of the two. Throughout the 19th century, the Russian Empire had annexed Eastern Armenia while the majority of the western parts of the traditional Armenian homeland remained under Ottoman control. Throughout World War I the Armenian Genocide systematically exterminated 1.5 million Armenians settled in their ancestral lands in the Ottoman Empire. After the Russian Revolution in 1918, all non-Russian countries proclaimed independence after the Russian Empire ceased to exist, which led to the creation of the First Republic of Armenia. The state was integrated into the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic by 1920, and became a founding Soviet member in 1922. The Transcaucasian state was abolished in 1936 turning its constituent states into independent republics of the Union, including the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. After the fall of the Soviet Union the new Republic of Armenia became independent in 1991.

Armenia is a developing country on the Human Development Index (2018) and ranks 81st. Their economy is focused primarily on industrial development and mineral extraction. Despite recent economic development, high unemployment and deprivation tend to predominate. The nation is a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, Council of Europe, and Organization of the Collective Security Treaty. Armenia is in favor of the de facto independent Artsakh, declared in 1991. Armenia also acknowledges the Armenian Apostolic Church, the oldest national church in the world, as the principal religious institution in the region. Mesrop Mashtots developed the special Armenian alphabet in 405 AD.

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Armenian Christianity