| "The Ethnic Minorities of Armenia" | "The conversion of Armenia to Christianity was probably the most crucial step in its history |
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| New York: Facts On File | "New Republics in the Caucasus" |
Hafeez Malik "Central Asia: Its Strategic Importance and Future Prospects" page 145• Time Almanac with Information Please 2007.
22| Russian Delight: A Cookbook of the Soviet People | To date, more than 20 countries in the world have officially recognized the events as genocide and most historians and genocide scholars accept this view |
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| It turned Armenia sharply away from its Iranian past and stamped it for centuries with an intrinsic character as clear to the native population as to those outside its borders, who identified Armenia almost at once as the first state to adopt Christianity" | Estimated dates vary from 284 to 314 |
By all accounts, over half of the Armenians in the United States live in California.
28| Baptist State convention of North Carolina | National Statistical Service of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic |
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| However, these are liable to be low numbers, since people of mixed ancestry, very common in North America tend to be under-counted: the 1990 census U | "Anatomy of Rumor: Murder Scandal, the Musavat Party and Narrative of the Russian Revolution in Baku, 1917—1920" |
called them the Aramians, or followers of , a name which has been corrupted into Armenians; and the country they inhabited, by universal consent, took the name of Armenia.
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