Greater Armenia (political concept)

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Greater Armenia or United Armenia (the term used by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation[1]) is an Armenian irredentist political goal aimed at uniting all territories perceived as "historically or ethnically Armenian" to the Republic of Armenia. Most of these territories had suffered under the Armenian Genocide.[2]

Most political groups (including the ARF) take the concept to encompass the area of Wilsonian Armenia (present-day eastern Turkey as proposed at the Treaty of Sèvres), Nagorno-Karabakh (a self-proclaimed, predominately Armenian republic within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan), Javakheti (a predominately Armenian region in present-day Georgia, called Javakhk by Armenians), and Nakhchivan (an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan that once was home to a significant Armenian community).[3]

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  1. ^ ARF Shant organization
  2. ^ President Wilson sends a special message to Congress
  3. ^ Programme of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation

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