Country history · Asia
History of Armenia
31 recorded states lay in what is now Armenia, from Azzi-Hayasa (1500 BCE) to Armenia. 4 of them have a full profile, and 23 outside powers ruled here.
Profiles
Empires that ruled here
Hittite Empire1650 BCE – 1178 BCE1 state here
Assyrian Empire2025 BCE – 609 BCE1 state here
Median Empire678 BCE – 549 BCE2 states here
Achaemenid Empire559 BCE – 330 BCE1 state here
Seleucid Empire312 BCE – 63 BCE1 state here
Parthian Empire247 BCE – 224 CE2 states here
Roman Republic509 BCE – 27 BCE1 state here
Roman Empire27 BCE – 476 CE2 states here
Sasanian Empire224 CE – 651 CE3 states here
Rashidun Caliphate632 CE – 661 CE1 state here
Umayyad Caliphate661 CE – 750 CE1 state here
Abbasid Caliphate750 CE – 1517 CE3 states here
Byzantine Empire330 CE – 1453 CE1 state here
Seljuk Empire1037 CE – 1194 CE5 states here
Mongol Empire1206 CE – 1368 CE2 states here
Ilkhanate1256 CE – 1357 CE2 states here
Timeline
16th century BCE
13th century BCE
10th century BCE
9th century BCE
6th century BCE
2nd century BCE
1st century
5th century
7th century
9th century
10th century
- Shaddadid Emirate951 CE – 1075 CE · emirate
- Kingdom of Lori979 CE – 1118 CE · kingdom
- Kingdom of Syunik987 CE – 1170 CE · kingdom
11th century
13th century
14th century
18th century
- Erivan Khanate1747 CE – 1828 CE · khanate
- Karabakh Khanate1748 CE – 1822 CE · khanate
- Qajar Iran1789 CE – 1925 CE · profile
20th century
- Transcaucasian Commissariat1917 CE – 1918 CE · other
- First Republic of Armenia1918 CE – 1920 CE · republic
- Republic of Aras1918 CE – 1919 CE · republic
- Southwestern Caucasian Republic1918 CE – 1919 CE · republic
- Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic1918 CE – 1918 CE · republic
- Armenian SSR1920 CE – 1991 CE · republic
- Republic of Mountainous Armenia1921 CE – 1921 CE · republic
- Transcaucasian SFSR1922 CE – 1936 CE · republic
- Armenia1991 CE – present · republic
In the encyclopedia
Shared histories
States that also lay in other present-day countries:
States of Caucasus → States of Anatolia and the Levant → All country histories →
Cite this page
- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). History of Armenia. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/countries/armenia
- MLA
- “History of Armenia.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/countries/armenia. Accessed .
- Chicago
- The Epoch Institute. “History of Armenia.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/countries/armenia.
- Harvard
- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘History of Armenia’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/countries/armenia (Accessed: ).