Armenia

Armenia is a country situated in Western Asia in the Caucasus region. Armenia is border by Georgia,  Azerbaijan,  Iran, and  Turkey.

Appearance
Armenia doesn't have a set appearance that the fandom often uses due to his lack of popularity, however, he can sometimes be depicted wearing a lavender pulpit robe with a purple flower on his head, in reference to him being one of the very first Christian countries and remaining so for countless decades. His flag is a horizontal triband, consisting (in order of) red, blue, and orange. His hands and the rest of his body starting from his neck is orange.

Personality
Due to his troubled and maybe even tragic history, Armenia can be seen as a little unstable in his emotions and even at times can find, maybe no hope in life anymore. Despite this, he is constantly looking on the bright side of things and when he doesn't feel down, he can be one of the most self-loving and self-appreciating countries. When he's feeling at his best, he can get a little arrogant and maybe even brag about being almost 3000 years old. He likes to show off his rich cars and Gucci stuff or whatever. However, Armenia is usually a very kind and friendly country, especially to people who find interest in his culture.

Interests

 * System of a Down
 * Heavy metal in general
 * Sunflower Seeds
 * Whine
 * Apricots
 * Lamahjun (Armenian pizza)
 * Tolma (Armenian stuffed cabbage)
 * Christianity
 * History (especially his own)
 * Anything that is relevant to cars (specifically his 2018 Mercedes-Benz AMG G65)
 * Southern California
 * Blasting 200 decibels of Armenian music at weddings
 * Engineers, doctors, and lawyers.

Flag meaning
The meaning of the first color on his flag, red, is the symbolization of the blood spilled at the Armenian genocide of the millions of Armenian, Lebanese, Assyrian, and Greek people during the events of World War I. The blue on his flag represents the clear blue sky of his country, maybe as a reference to how pretty his country is. The orange on his flag represents the courage that the Armenian people have, surviving for thousands of years despite going through many hardships.

Prehistory
The Armenian Highlands have been settled by human groups from the Lower Paleolithic to modern days. The first human traces are supported by the presence of Acheulean tools, generally close to the obsidian outcrops more than 1 million years ago. Middle and Upper Paleolithic settlements have also been identified such as at the Hovk 1 cave and the Trialetian culture.

The Shulaveri-Shomu culture of the central Transcaucasus region is one of the earliest known prehistoric cultures in the area, carbon-dated to roughly 6000 - 4000 BC. The Shulaveri-Shomu culture in the area was succeeded by the Bronze Age Kura-Araxes culture, dated to the period of ca. 3400 - 2000 BC.

The most recent and important excavation is at the Nor Geghi 1 Stone Age site in the Hrazdan river valley. Thousands of 325,000 year-old artifacts show that human technological innovation occurred intermittently throughout the Old World, rather than spreading from a single point of origin (usually hypothesized to be Africa), as was previously thought

An early Bronze-Age culture in the area is the Kura-Araxes culture, assigned to the period between c. 4000 and 2200 BC. The earliest evidence for this culture is found on the Ararat plain; thence it spread to Georgia by 3000 BC (but never reaching Colchis), proceeding westward and to the south-east into an area below the Urmia basin and Lake Van.

From 2200 BC to 1600 BC, the Trialeti-Vanadzor culture flourished in Armenia, southern Georgia, and northeastern Turkey. It has been speculated that this was an Indo-European culture. Other possibly related cultures were spread throughout the Armenia Highlands during this time, namely in the Aragats and Lake Sevan regions.

Early 20th-century scholars suggested that the name "Armenia" may have possibly been recorded for the first time on an inscription which mentions Armanî (or Armânum) together with Ibla, from territories conquered by Naram-Sin (2300 BC) identified with an Akkadian colony in the current region of Diyarbekir; however, the precise locations of both Armani and Ibla are unclear. Some modern researchers have placed Armani (Armi) in the general area of modern Samsat, and have suggested it was populated, at least partially, by an early Indo-European-speaking people. Today, the Modern Assyrians (who traditionally speak Neo-Aramaic, however, not Akkadian) refer to the Armenians by the name Armani. Thutmose III of Egypt, in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC), mentioned as the people of "Ermenen", calming that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars". Armenia is possibly connected to Mannaea, which may be identical to the region of Minni mentioned in The Bible. However, what all these attestations refer to cannot be determined with certainty, and the earliest certain attestation of the name "Armenia" comes from the Behistun Inscription (c. 500 BC).

The earliest form of the word "Hayastan", an endonym for Armenia, might possibly be Hayasa-Azzi, a kingdom in the Armenian Highlands that was recorded in Hittite records dating from 1500-1200 BC.

Between 1200 and 800 BC, much of Armenia was united under a confederation of tribes, which Assyrian sources called Nairi ("Land of Rivers" in Assyrian").

The main object of early Assyrian incursions into Armenia was to obtain metals. The iron-working age followed that of bronze everywhere, opening a new epoch of human progress. Its influence is noticeable in Armenia, and the transition period is well marked. Tombs whose metal contents are all of bronze are of an older epoch. In most of the cemeteries explored, both bronze and iron furniture were found, indicating the gradual advance into the Iron Age.

Geography
(TBC)

Friends

 * Russia
 * Georgia
 * Greece
 * Iran
 * Egypt
 * USA
 * Scotland
 * Wales
 * Northern Ireland
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Germany
 * France
 * Italy
 * Bulgaria
 * Serbia
 * Poland
 * Japan
 * Canada
 * Australia
 * South Korea
 * United Arab Emirates
 * Malaysia
 * Bolivia
 * Brazil
 * Argentina
 * Uruguay
 * Chile
 * Brazil
 * Cyprus
 * Sweden
 * Denmark
 * Czechia
 * Lebanon
 * Luxembourg
 * Netherlands
 * Paraguay
 * Portugal
 * Slovakia
 * Syria
 * Venezuela
 * Vatican City
 * Lithuania
 * Libya
 * Austria
 * Belgium
 * India

Neutral

 * Ukraine
 * Belarus
 * England
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Spain
 * Hungary
 * Turkmenistan
 * Kazakhstan
 * Uzbekistan
 * China

Enemies

 * Pakistan
 * Turkey
 * Azerbaijan

Past Versions

 * Armenian SSR

Russia
Armenia is on good terms with Russia, even with his independence. He helps out with the army and vice versa. He is one of the few countries after dissolving from the Soviet Union to not fear him. He probably is one of Russia's best friends (under Serbia, of course). They are currently over one million Armenians living in Russia as of 2019.

Greece
Greece has always been one of Armenia's best friends. They both are very similar countries and can even be depicted as brothers. They even share a similar language branch. There are a number of Armenian communities in Greece, and after Russia, Greece is one of Armenia's biggest military partners. Greece has even made the denial of his genocide illegal.

Georgia
Georgia and Armenia have been very close in their past and can be depicted as brother and sister, if not, maybe even as lovers. They are also similar in culture and have had much support for each other during medieval periods. Both countries have also had mixed with their royal families in the medieval ages. They have had some conflicts in the past due to border issues, but today both countries remain in very good, healthy terms. Georgia is a little upset at Armenia since he loves Russia so much.

Iran (Persia)
These two have also been close to each other over the years. They could be seen as enemies however, due to Armenia being a Christian and him being Muslim, but gradually over time they drew closer and closer as friends and have had many cultural similarities and adaptations because of it.

United States of America
Although he does not fully recognize his genocide (since he doesn’t want to upset Turkey), 49/50 of all of his states officially recognize the events of April 24th, 1915, as a genocide. America has shown a lot of kindness to Armenia by donating money to his church and has even made Hollywood films based on his Genocide. A lot of Armenians today live in Los Angeles, specially in Glendale. America has even named a city in LA after him.

France
After the genocide, many of Armenia’s people moved out of Ottoman’s land and into different ones, Paris being one of the most popular. They have also been close together due to both of them being Christian countries and participating in crusades, and France has even criminalized the act of denying his genocide.

Serbia
Orthodox friends. They have had a similar love for Christianity and can understand each other’s problems due to the Ottomans.

Azerbaijan
He was close to Azerbaijan as much as he was with Georgia, until he then had a conflict in trying to win over his brother, Artsakh, back from Azerbaijan’s custody. After forming the Transcaucasian federation with him and Georgia, the Red Army invaded them and won custody of them. USSR saw Azerbaijan and Armenia fighting over Artsakh, and just gave it to Azerbaijan because he didn’t really know what to do. He probably just picked it out of a hat or whatever. After USSR died, more conflict rose around him and Azerbaijan. Armenia has fought to win back Artsakh to be part of him, but then realized that it would’ve better if Artsakh could be his own separate state. He fought hard for his little brother and although he is having ceasefire ordered by Russia between him and Azerbaijan, some mini firing has happened recently. This entire conflict is referred to as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan and Armenia still are not exactly on good terms, but both of them secretly wish they can become friends again.

Turkey
Like Azerbaijan, Turkey was close with Armenia (despite crusades) in the past. They had similar culture, foods, and both had military support. When Turkey was still the Ottoman Empire, Armenia felt like it could be successful for him too. Armenians had been, homogenously, supporting Russia during the late days of the Ottoman Empire. The Turks were weakening, and Russians, they wanted to occupy more, so they asked Armenians to cause mass revolts against the Turks. And only in WWI, it was recognized. Armenian revolts in Sarikamish resulted with the Russian advance, marked the most disastrous loss for the Turks in the Caucasian Front. Over 90.000 Turkish troops, only 15.000 returned. Armenians mostly defected to the Russian force. Armenian militias even began skirmishing on the Turkish villages and they, along with Russian troops, burnt alive many innocent civilians and even killed any Armenian Muslims.It happened with a different fact: the Russo-Armenian force all caused it.

After these defeats Turkey his revenge by causing the Armenian genocide, they first provided the Amernians people to have any weapons, took the men out the villages to shoot them and forced women and children to an exile through the desert in very bad conditions until they die.

And now even recently, Turkey has publicly stated on Twitter that he wanted to express his condolences for the deaths of his people in World War I. Armenia was very proud, but still a little angry not fully recognizing him. Things are looking in the bright side for them right now, but as of now they don’t exactly seem to be in good terms.

Pakistan
Pakistan not only denies his genocide, but he denies his mere existence. He is the only country in the UN to not recognize Armenia as a country, due to close ties with Azerbaijan and Turkey. As a result, Armenia is just confused and scared of him.