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Encyclopedia4U - Armenia - Encyclopedia Article (270 words) |
 | The Republic of Armenia is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, with Turkey to the west and Georgia to the north, and sharing borders with Azerbaijan in the east, and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in the south. |
| Armenia was incorporated into Russian Empire in 1828 and the USSR in 1920. |
| Armenia and Azerbaijan began fighting over the exclave in 1988; the struggle escalated after both countries attained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. |
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