Eastern Armenia
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- This article is about the historical subregion in Eurasia. For other uses, see Armenia (disambiguation).
Eastern Armenia was the portion of Ottoman Armenia and Persian Armenia that was ceded to the Russian Empire following the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829. The history of the subregion in Eurasia is covered under Russian Armenia.
The Eastern Armenian dialect of the Armenian language is spoken primarily in the Caucasus region (including modern Armenia) and in Iran and Russia.
