Armenia is a mountainous land between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea with an old Christian civilization. It met the Arabs through trade and then lay on the border of the Islamic state with Rome's lands, and many peoples and rulers came out of it into Muslim history.
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Armenia
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Armenia is a land in the southern Caucasus between the Black and Caspian seas; its mountains made its place as a borderland between empires: Persian and Roman first, then Islamic and Byzantine. It was among the first kingdoms to adopt Christianity officially in the fourth century, and its history mixes local dynasties with Persian and Roman rule. The Muslims conquered it in the first Islamic century within the Caucasus conquests, and it became the province 'Arminiya' covering parts of the Caucasus, including the Khazars and Azerbaijan. From it came successive rulers — Bagratids, Seljuks, Armenians, Arabs, Mongols and Ottomans — and among its cities Tbilisi, Dvin and Ani.
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