PanARMENIAN.Net
May 28: Day of First Republic of Armenia
28.05.2007 12:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On May 28 Armenia marks the Day of the First
Republic.
Having defeated the Turkish army in Sardarapat May 26 the 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. 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.