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Travel story: Route in China (ARMENIA )

Ararat
Coming in by overnight train from Tbilisi, I could see Mount Ararat the distant Turkish territory where most of the lands once occupied by ancient Armenia now lie. At its zenith under Tigran the great in 83 BC, Armenia included most of modern Azerbaijan and Georgia, it stretched down into Iran and Iraq and had access to three seas, the Caspian, the Black sea and the Mediterranean sea.

In the 18th century, the Russians moved south into Ottoman territory and did... More

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