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Name: armenia (modern)

Type: Cluster

Start: 886 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms the modern Armenian Nation since the Middle Ages.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia
  • First Republic of Armenia
  • Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
  • Republic of Armenia
  • Establishment


  • January 886: Ashot restored the Armenian monarchy and became Armenia's first king.
  • Chronology


    Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

    1. Arab-Byzantine Wars


    Were a series of wars between a number of Muslim Arab dynasties and the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 11th century. Conflict started during the initial Muslim conquests, under the expansionist Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs, in the 7th century and continued by their successors until the mid-11th century.

  • January 891: The Hamdanid Dynasty was established in 890.

  • 1.1.Byzantine reconquest of Edessa

    Byzantine reconquest of Edessa.

  • January 943: Byzantine reconquest of Edessa.

  • 2. Caspian expeditions of the Rus´


    Were military raids undertaken by the Rus' between the late 9th century and c. 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores.

    2.1.First Caspian expedition of the Rus'

    The Rus' undertook the first large-scale expedition in the Caspian Sea in 913. Having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Georgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods.

  • January 914: The Rus' undertook the first large-scale Caspian expedition in 913. Having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Gorgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods.
  • February 914: The Rus' undertook the first large-scale Caspian expedition in 913. After having pillaged the Gorgan, Gilan and Mazandaran (Modern-day Iran), the Rus' forces left these regions.

  • 3. Byzantine-Georgian wars


    Were a series of conflicts between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Georgia.

    3.1.Georgian campaigns of Basil II

    Was a military campaign by Byzantine emperor Basil II in Georgia.

  • January 1017: George I launched a campaign to restore the David Kuropalates’ succession to Georgia and occupied Tao in 1015-1016.
  • September 1021: The Byzantines defeated the Georgians in the Battle of Shirimni.
  • January 1022: The Ardzruni kingdom of Vaspurakan was annexed by the Byzantine Empire.

  • 4. World War I


    Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

    4.1.World War I Middle East Theatre

    Was the theatre of war in the Middle East during World War I.

    4.1.1.Caucasus campaign (World War I)

    Was an armed conflict mainly between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus area during World War I.

    4.1.1.1.Transcaucasian Front of World War I

    Was the theatre of war in Transcaucasia during World War I.

  • May 1918: The First Republic of Armenia declared its independence.

  • 5. Russian Civil War


    Was a Civil War in Russia that involved varios factions but mainly the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Army in the core Russian territories, as well as a multitude of local secessionist states. At the end of war the Bolsheviks were victorious and established the Soviet Union.

    5.1.Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War

    Local independence movement caused several secessions and revolts during the Russian Civil War.

    5.1.1.Pro-independence and White movements in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War

    Were a series of revolts and secessions in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War.

  • May 1918: The Azerbaijani National Council undertook parliamentary functions and proclaimed the foundation of the "Azerbaijani Democratic Republic" and declared the National Charter.
  • August 1920: The Treaty of Sèvres was signed between the Allied and Associated Powers and the Ottoman Empire at Sèvres, France on August 10, 1920. The treaty included a clause on Armenia: it made all parties signing the treaty recognize Armenia as a free and independent state. De facto Armenia never took control of all the regions populated by Armenians.
  • April 1921: The Republic of Mountainous Armenia was established by a military commander and Armenian political thinker Garegin Nzhdeh and his allies with the support of local guerrilla forces, following the suppression of the February Uprising in April 1921.
  • July 1921: After months of fierce battles with the Red Army, the Republic of Mountainous Armenia capitulated in July 1921 following Soviet Russia's promises to keep the mountainous region as a part of Soviet Armenia.
  • October 1921: The Treaty of Kars was a peace treaty that established the common borders between Turkey and the three Transcaucasian republics of the Soviet Union.

  • 5.1.1.1.Georgian-Armenian War

    Was a border dispute that was fought in December 1918 between the newly independent Democratic Republic of Georgia and the First Republic of Armenia.

    5.1.1.2.Armenian-Azerbaijani War

    Was a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan during the Russian Civil War.

    5.1.1.3.Red Army invasion of Georgia and Armenia

    Was a military campaign by the Russian Red Army against secessionist states in the Caucasus.

  • December 1920: Capture of Yerevan and Echmiadzin by Bolshevik forces.
  • December 1920: The Soviets took control of Armenia, which ceased to exist as an independent state. The regions given to Armenia by the treaty of Sevres remained to Turkey.

  • 5.2.Ottoman Invasion of Armenia

    Was an Ottoman military invasion of Armenia, part of the Turkish-Armenian war and also of the Caucasian theatre of the Russian Civil War.

  • September 1920: At 2:30 in the morning of September 13, five battalions from the Turkish XV Army Corps crossed the Turkish-Armenian border and surprised the thinly spread and unprepared Armenian armies at Olti and Peniak.
  • September 1920: Turks entered Sarıkamış.
  • October 1920: The city of Kars came under full Turkish occupation.
  • November 1920: Turkish forces continued to advance in Armenia, and a week after the capture of Kars, they took control of Alexandropol.
  • November 1920: The Turks captured the strategic village of Aghin.

  • 6. Dissolution of the Soviet Union


    Was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full independence.

  • September 1991: The Republic of Armenia became independent in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

  • 7. Post-Soviet Conflicts


    Are a series of conflicts that are considered to be a consequence of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

    7.1.Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

    A series of conflicts between Azerbaijan and the breakaway Armenian Republic of Artsakh that started after Azerbaijan gained indipendence from the USSR in 1991.

    7.1.1.2019 Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes

    Was a small conflict between the Armenian Armed Forces and Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

  • May 2018: Clashes and subsequent military operations ended with Azerbaijan regaining several occupied villages and strategic positions within the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, these areas had previously been part of a no man's land between the Azerbajiani and Armenian lines.

  • 7.1.2.2021-2022 Armenia-Azerbaijan border crisis

    A border conflict since 12 May 2021 between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

  • May 2021: Reports emerged regarding the crossing of Azerbaijani soldiers into Armenian territory on 12 May, in two areas along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.

  • 8. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 894: The Kingdom of Hereti was a medieval monarchy which emerged in Caucasus on the Iberian-Albanian frontier.

  • January 909: In about 908 Abkhazian king Constantine III (c.894 . 923) annexed a significant portion of Kartli.

  • January 952: Muhammad ibn Shaddad conquers Dwin.

  • January 965: Kaysite dynasty conquered by Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia.

  • January 968: With the death of Ashot Bagratuni of Taron in 967 (not to be confused with Ashot III), his sons Gregory and Bagrat were not able to withstand the pressure from the empire, which annexed their principality outright and converted it to a theme.

  • January 972: In 971, Lashkari ibn Muhammad, a member of the Shaddadid dynasty, established himself in Ganja.

  • January 984: With the weakening of the buyid power after the death of Adud ad-Daula after 983, the Kurdish Marwan tribe under Badh, a former shepherd, gained control of Mayyafariqin and the areas of Amida and Nusaybin.

  • January 1046: After the fall of the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia in 1045, Kiurike II was bestowed by the Byzantines with the title of Kouropalates and became an independent ruler in the region of Tashir.

  • January 1046: Establishment of the Kingdom of Artsakh and end of Bagratid Armenia.

  • January 1046: The Syunik kingdom was an Armenian state that survived after the fall of the centralized Armenian kingdom.

  • January 1046: After the death of King Gagik I (in 1017 or 1020), the kingdom of Armenia was split between his two sons. However, after the death fo both brothers in 1040-1041 during a civil war, the Byzantine emperor claimed the kingdom of Bagratid Armenia.

  • March 1922: The Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian SSRs, were united into the Federative Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Transcaucasia on 12 March 1922.

  • January 1993: Armenian forces seized control of Gyunnyut, which is located Sharur District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

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