ARMENIA Armenia, republic in Western Asia, bordered by Georgia to the North, Azerbaijani to the East, Turkey to the West and South, and Iran to the South. ... Formerly a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Armenia is an extremely mountainous country with a limited amount of arable land. ... The current republic of Armenia declared its independence from the Soviet Union on September 21, 1991. ... Tigranes" empire came under the control of the Roman Empire before the end of the 1st century. In the 1st century ad a Parthian-Roman treaty installed the Part...

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Greek and Roman civilizations served as models for the western world. ... Most of Europe's Christians are Roman Catholics. ... Russia and the Eurasian Republics land spans two continents Europe and Asia. All of the republics except Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine are landlocked. ... The three major religions are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as well as a number of other faiths, are now practiced openly in Russia and the Eurasian Republics. ...

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