First Republic of Armenia
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The First Republic of Armenia, officially known at the time of its existence as the Republic of Armenia, was an independent Armenian state that existed from May 1918 to 2 December 1920 in the Armenian
Caucasian Front WWI. The territory of Western Armenia occupied by Armenian Russian troops in the summer-autumn of 1916. Niva Magazine – 1916
Starving children on a street in Armenia
American Commission to Negotiate Peace telegram describing massacres around Nakhchivan
Armenian units drilling in Baku in 1918
The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was a short-lived state in the Caucasus that included most of the territory of present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as parts of Russia
First Republic of Armenia
…Eastern or Russian Armenia. The republic was established in May 1918, with its capital in the city of Yerevan, after the dissolution of the short-lived Transcaucasian Federation. It was the first Armenian state since the Middle Ages. In its first year of independence, Armenia was confined to a small territory around Lake Sevan…
Nikolay Chkheidze, who served as the chairman of the Seim
Akaki Chkhenkeli served both as prime minister and foreign affairs minister for the republic.
Hall in Tbilisi, where Georgia's independence was proclaimed in 1918, leading to the rapid collapse of TDFR within days