First Republic of Armenia

Republic of Armenia Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն
1918–1920
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Mer Hayrenik
Territory held by Armenia and the Karabakh Council at some point   Territories of Armenia Occupied by Neighboring States   Area given to Armenia by the Treaty of Sèvres, which was not ratified and never entered into force.[1]
Capital	Yerevan
Common languages	Armenian
Religion	Armenian Apostolic
Government	Parliamentary republic
Prime Minister
• Jun 1918–May 1919	Hovhannes Kajaznuni
• May 1919–May 1920	Alexander Khatisian
• May–Nov 1920	Hamo Ohanjanyan
• Nov–Dec 1920	Simon Vratsian
Historical era	Interwar period
• Declaration of Independence	May 28 1918
• Act of United Armenia	May 28, 1919
• Sovietization	December 2 1920
Area
mid-1918 (after the Treaty of Batum)[2][3]	11,000 km2 (4,200 sq mi)
1919 (after the Armistice of Mudros)[4]	70,000 km2 (27,000 sq mi)
1920 (per the Treaty of Sèvres; never realized)[5]	160,000 km2 (62,000 sq mi)
Population
• mid-1918 (after the Treaty of Batum)[2][3]	500000
• 1919 (after the Armistice of Mudros)[4]	1300000
Currency	Armenian ruble
ISO 3166 code	AM
Preceded by Succeeded by Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic Republic of Mountainous Armenia Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Turkey

The First Republic of Armenia, 1918–1920, was the first modern establishment of an Armenian republic. The country was created after the Russian Tsarist empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917 that lost power. Its creation with borders were the Democratic Republic of Georgia in the north, the Ottoman Empire to the west, the Persian Empire to the south, and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic to the east.

1. ↑ Hille, Charlotte Mathilde Louise (2010). State Building and Conflict Resolution in the Caucasus. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 151. ISBN 978-90-04-17901-1.
2. ↑ Hewsen, Robert (2001). Armenia: A Historical Atlas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 235. ISBN 0-226-33228-4.
3. ↑ Walker, Christopher J. (1990). Armenia: The Survival of a Nation (revised second ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 257. ISBN 9780312042301.
4. ↑ Chiclet, Christophe (2005). "The Armenian Genocide" in Turkey Today: A European Country? Olivier Roy (ed.) London: Anthem Press. p. 167. ISBN 1-84331-173-9.
5. ↑ Hakobyan, Tatul (9 August 2015). "Sèvres: The Unfulfilled Armenian Dream". ANI Armenian Research Center. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2017. If the Treaty of Sèvres had been realised, the Republic of Armenia would have covered a territory of over 160 thousand square kilometres.