Top 10 Amazing Facts About Armenia
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1 Armenia was the first country to have adopted christianity as its state religion so check this out today 97 of the population of armenia are christians now the country was converted to christianity back in the year 301 a.d by saint gregory illuminator and since then many churches have been built in his name moving on to fact.
2 All of you fans of the queen's gambit you know that show on netflix you're definitely gonna love this one just can also be beautiful chess is actually a compulsory subject in schools in armenia making chess a compulsory subject in school means that kids actually have to study and practice a game like any other subject like science math and other subjects this helps them develop skills at a very young age that help to complement their performance in other subjects also outside of school it makes your brain just think a little bit differently moving on to fact.
3 We have yerevan this is the capital of armenia and it's called the pink city because of the color of the stones used in many of its buildings in the countryside if you take a drive by you'll see that there's many houses that mix with the pinkish hills because they also have pink stones so the hills are pink the houses are pink everything is pink well not everything but a whole lot of the city is pink yerban is also one of the oldest inhabited cities and it was constructed 29 years before rome next thing to know is that Armenians.
4 Armenians also believe that they know the exact location of noah's ark there's a proper belief in armenia that noah's ark is in mount ararat according to the bible noah's ark refers to the vessel that was built by noah to preserve a life of humans and animals from drowning in a global flood now despite many people searching for the ark no one can actually conclusively say that they have found noah's ark but it's still a big part in armenian heritage and the ark also appears on armenia's coat of arms mount ararat by the way is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the very eastern section of turkey and it consists of two major volcanic cones there is the greater ararat and then there's little ararat greater ararat is the highest peak in turkey and the armenian highland with an elevation of 5 1337 meters or 16 854 feet tall next up at fact.
5 Dinner in armenia is rarely eaten without huge piles of tasty flat bread now this is a staple in armenian cuisine it's so important that it is placed on the unesco's list of intangible cultural heritage and that was done back in the year 2014. so if you love yourself some nice juicy flatbread armenia is the country to be all right guys so we reached halfway in this Article looking at 10 surprising facts about armenia we have five more to go but just taking this time fact.
6 According to guinness world records the longest non-stop double track cable car is in tativ aerial tramway it's exactly 5752 meters long which works out to be 18 871 feet long now this cable car is pretty amazing it connects the village of hal azor with the tatev monastery and on it you have a great view of the vorotan river gorge as you travel along now this is something that armenia is really proud of moving on to fact.
7 Armenia is one of the only monoethnic countries in the entire world okay this is pretty surprising but 97 of people living in armenia are armenians and the remaining small percent are made up of various different ethnic minorities like ukrainians kurds russians and other ethnic groups yeah but they keep their ethnic pool very small there's not a lot of immigration to armenia as well it's just another aspect that makes this country a little unique another interesting fact coming at.
8 That the miyazin is the mother church of the armenian apostolic church and it's located in the city of miyazan which also has the name of baghar shapa now according to most scholars anyways it is actually the first cathedral that was built in ancient armenia and it's often considered the oldest cathedral in the entire world for fact.
9 There's also a stork village in armenia this village contains a whole row of long wooden poles lined up and if you're traveling along you can see huge storks nest on top of each of these poles it's said that these storks migrate from africa every single year before winter and then they return when it's springtime also the nests are pretty massive that some other small birds like sparrows they make little nests out of the huge storks nests and finally we made it to fact.
10 For this Article probably our most important fact in this Article so check it out back in the year 1915 the ottoman government they orchestrated uh extermination of 1.5 million armenians and this act is known as the armenian genocide now turkey the successor state of the ottoman empire they actually denied that it was a genocide but governments of 28 countries including britain france and russia they recognized the event as an act of genocide but today the armenian genocide remembrance day is a public holiday in armenia and is observed on april 24th of each and every year so for all our armenian brothers and sisters out there you know we support you here at ftd facts and we wish your country continual success in the years to come all right guys so that ends this Article.
This is a look at just 10 surprising and interesting facts about armenia really hope you guys enjoyed this one definitely it's a fascinating country so much more to explore and i want to know your thoughts and comments down below leave a like if you enjoyed this Article until next time guys stay awesome stay educated and i'll see you real soon take care Guys bye.
