PanARMENIAN.Net
Armenia marks Day of the First Republic May 28, 2008
28.05.2008 12:09 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia is marking Day of the First
Republic today.
Having defeated the Turkish army in Sardarapat May 26,
Armenian troops succeeded in stopping the Turkish
intervention in the Transcaucasus and rescue Armenia
from complete elimination.
The Armenian Republic was proclaimed the Armenian
National Council May 28, 1918 in Tiflis after the
decline of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative
Republic.
May 29 the western and eastern bureaus of ARF
Dashnaktsutyun appointed Hovhannes Kajaznuni the
first-ever Prime Minister of independent Armenia with
Yerevan as capital. The last Prime Minister was Simon
Vratsyan.
The Republic of Armenia had existed for two years in
all. On December 2, 1920, the troops of the 11th Red
Army entered Yerevan and the republic became soviet.
In 1991 the Armenian SSR proclaimed independence and
the parliament announced May 28 a legal holiday.
A monument to Sardarapat battle heroes was inaugurated
in 1968.