The Armenian Declaration of Independence ( hy, Հայաստանի Անկախության Հռչակագիր, translit=Hayastani Ankakhutyan Hrchakagir) is the
declaration of independence
A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of th ...
of the Armenian provinces from the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War ...
. Armenia was proclaimed independent in Tiflis (present-day
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million pe ...
) on 28 May 1918. The declaration of the independence was as follows:
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Declaration of State Sovereignty of Armenia
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Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan
The Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan ( az, Azərbaycanın İstiqlal Bəyannaməsi) is the pronouncement adopted by the Azerbaijani National Council meeting in Tiflis on 28 May 1918, declaring the independence of the Azerbaijan Democra ...
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Georgian Declaration of Independence, 1918
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