Republic of Mountainous Armenia Լեռնահայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն (Armenian) | |||||||||||
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1920–1921 | |||||||||||
Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||||
Capital | Goris (de facto)[1] | ||||||||||
Common languages | Armenian (de facto) | ||||||||||
Demonym(s) | Armenian | ||||||||||
Government | Republic | ||||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||||
• 1921 | Garegin Nzhdeh | ||||||||||
• 1921 | Simon Vratsian | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
18 Feb – 2 Apr 1920 | |||||||||||
• Declared | 26 April 1920 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 13 July 1921 | ||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | AM | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Armenia Azerbaijan |
History of Armenia |
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Timeline • Origins • Etymology |
The Republic of Mountainous Armenia (Armenian: Լեռնահայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն, romanized: Leṙnahayastani Hanrapetut’yun), also known as simply Mountainous Armenia (Լեռնահայաստան, Leṙnahayastan), was an anti-Bolshevik Armenian state roughly corresponding with the territory that is now the present-day Armenian provinces of Vayots Dzor and Syunik, and some parts of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan (in particular, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic) in the west.[2] It was established by military commander and Armenian political thinker Garegin Nzhdeh and his allies with the support of local guerrilla forces, following the suppression of the February Uprising in April 1921. It was not recognized by any country but existed until mid-July of the same year.
In 1920–1921 with an Armenian Citizen Army of around 15,000 General Nzhdeh and his highly motivated soldiers inflicted heavy casualties upon the Kemalist Turkish army of over 100,000 coming from the West (Ankara) and the Soviet Red Army with over 150,000 forces coming from the East (Baku).