Greater Armenia (political concept)
- Greater Armenia (political concept)
Greater Armenia or United Armenia (the term used by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation [ [http://www.arfshant.org/index.aspx?PAGEACTION=Home ARF Shant organization] ] ) 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. [" [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D15FE3F5E1B728DDDAC0A94DD405B808EF1D3 President Wilson sends a special message to Congress] ," "New York Times"]
The ARF take the concept to encompass the areas 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)
*Nakhchivan (an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan that once was home to a significant Armenian community). [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20060228100703/www.arfd.am/english/policy/programme.php Programme of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation] ]
ee also
*Foreign relations of Armenia
*Megali Idea
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