Armenia is a landlocked country bordered by Turkey to the west, Iran to the south, Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, with a total area of 29,700 square kilometers and a total population of about 3 million.
1. Armenia is a country that has experienced three major genocides in the world, and in 1915, the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against Armenians, nearly 1.5 million people were slaughtered and 800,000 became refugees. During this period, a large number of Armenians were dispersed throughout the world, and the Armenian population is currently distributed around the world, which is about 6 million, almost half the country's population.
2. The first Christian country in the world was Armenia, and it was also the first country in the world to establish Christianity as the state religion. About 94 per cent of the population in Armenia is Christian, and there are countless Christian churches throughout the country.
3. The territory of Armenia is high, the average altitude of the country is 1800 meters, belonging to the mountainous country, the highest altitude in the territory is 4900 meters.
4. There is a city in Armenia in Gyumri, where most of the traffic police are tall women, accounting for 65% of the total number of traffic police. On Gyumri Street, you will see a female traffic policeman almost every section of the road, which has also become a beautiful landscape of Gyumri City.
5. Armenians generally entertain friends for no more than three days, and after the friends come, they will prepare good lamb kebabs, dance to cheer the guests, and ask to stay overnight. If on the third day of your stay, the Armenians start chasing you away for various reasons, and if you don't want to go, you must give a good reason why you don't want to go, otherwise you have to leave.
6. There is no need to give a bride price for marriage in Armenia, but two rubies must be prepared, one for the mother-in-law and one for the wife. Armenian weddings have a fun game of "grabbing slippers", which means letting the bride take off her shoes and hide them, and let the guests guess and find out their location before the wedding can proceed.
7, Armenia, like Georgia, has a long history of winemaking, both men and women like to drink, because there are more women in the country than men, at night, you will often see women who drink a lot on the side of the road.
8. Many people say that Armenia is a country founded by the descendants of Ma Chao, and there are indeed historical events. The history of Armenia records that the ancestor of Armenia was Ma Kang, who was transferred from China to Armenia in the 3rd century AD, and Ma Kang is the descendant of Ma Chao.
9. Do not mention Turkey in Armenia, because Armenia and Turkey are feuds, deeper than our hatred with Japan, Turkey carried out massacres in Armenia, and now supports Azerbaijan in the war with Armenia, in short, there is a deep grudge.
10, Armenia has an ancient ethnic Assyrian, the folk style, like the Mongol cavalry on the mainland, the Assyrians have a special hobby, that is, they like to eat goose meat, almost all meals.
11. Armenia and Azerbaijan were originally Soviet Unions, and these two brothers used to be a family, but in recent years they have fought frequently. There is a Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which both sides want to take for themselves, this place is in Azerbaijan, and there is only one Lachin corridor with Armenia, but 90% of the people living in the Nagorno-Karabakh region are Armenian, so it is difficult to tell.
12. In 1915, on the outskirts of Armenia, a group of young girls were crucified and subjected to inhuman insults. The average age of this group of women was no more than 25 years old, and because of different issues of faith, the mob decided to crucify them.
13. Armenia is the poorest country in the world, with a per capita GDP of only more than 4,000 US dollars, although it is very poor now, but the largest territory of Armenia in history reached 3 million square kilometers.
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