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Armed reprisal

Armed reprisal: a state's limited use of military force in response to another state's unlawful act, once lawful under the Naulilaa conditions but now prohibited under the UN Charter and ILC countermeasures law.

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is the US Department of Defense multiple-aptitude test used since 1976 for military enlistment screening (AFQT) and job classification, and in high schools for career exploration; scored via 3PL IRT, mean 50, SD 10.

Armée indigène

The Armée indigène, the Haitian liberation army commanded by Jean-Jacques Dessalines from May 1803, defeated the French expedition and proclaimed Haiti's independence on 1 January 1804.

Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste

The Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste (ANS, Sihanoukist National Army) was the military wing of FUNCINPEC, the royalist resistance of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, formed after Vietnam's 1979 occupation of Cambodia.

Armeena Khan

Armeena Rana Khan (ارمینہ رانا خان), Pakistani-Canadian actress and model based in the UK; first Pakistani actress to walk Cannes (2013, Writhe); films Bin Roye, Janaan, Yalghaar, Sherdil; dramas Shab-e-Arzoo Ka Aalam, Karb, Daldal.

Armen H. Tashjian

Armen H. Tashjian (1932–2009) was an American physician-scientist and Harvard professor of toxicology whose calcitonin radioimmunoassay made early diagnosis of hereditary medullary thyroid cancer possible.

Armen Nazaryan

Armen Nazaryan (Արմեն Նազարյան, born 1974, Masis) is an Armenian-born Greco-Roman wrestler, two-time Olympic champion (1996 for Armenia, 2000 for Bulgaria), 2004 bronze medalist, three-time world champion, and later Bulgarian national coach.

Armen Petrosyan (Արմեն Պետրոսյան) (fighter)

Armen "Superman" Petrosyan (Արմեն Պետրոսյան), born 1990, is an Armenian-Russian middleweight MMA fighter and former Muay Thai champion who went 3-4 in the UFC (2022-2025) after a DWCS knockout win; not related to the kickboxing Petrosyan brothers.

Armen Takhtajan

Armen Takhtajan (1910–2009) was a Soviet and Russian botanist at the Komarov Institute in Leningrad whose Takhtajan system of flowering-plant classification greatly influenced later systems.

Armen Zakarian

Armen Zakarian is an organic chemist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for total syntheses of marine and plant natural products and asymmetric methods.

Armenia (Հայաստան)

Armenia (Հայաստան, Hayastan), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked South Caucasus country of about 3.1 million people with capital Yerevan; independent since the 1991 referendum, parliamentary since 2015, and shifting from Russia toward the EU amid the Azerbaijan peace process.

Armenia family

Armenia family (FIN 905), named for asteroid (780) Armenia, a compact, C-type, high-inclination outer main-belt asteroid family; 40 members at 50 m/s cutoff in Nesvorny et al. 2015, a possible young family candidate.

Armenia national football team (Հայաստանի ֆուտբոլի ազգային հավաքական)

Armenia national football team (Հայաստանի ֆուտբոլի ազգային հավաքական), men's team of the FFA since 1992; never qualified for a World Cup or Euro; FIFA high 30th in 2014; home Yerevan; coach Yeghishe Melikyan.

Armenia–Azerbaijan peace agreement

Draft treaty initialed 8 August 2025 at the White House by Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, published 11 August 2025; 17 articles on borders, territorial claims, and diplomatic relations; unsigned pending Armenia's constitutional amendment.

Armenia, Quindío Department

Armenia is a Colombian city and capital of the Quindío Department, founded on October 14, 1889. It is a central economic hub for the coffee axis.

Armenian alphabet (հայոց գրեր)

Armenian alphabet (հայոց գրեր, aybuben): 36-letter script created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405–406 CE with Sahak Partev and King Vramshapuh; now 39 letters, split traditional versus 1922/1940 reformed orthography.

Armenian Americans

Armenian Americans, an estimated 460,000-person U.S. ancestry community (2022 ACS) centered in greater Los Angeles and California, descended largely from survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide and counted via the census ancestry question.

Armenian Apostolic Church (Հայ Առաքելական Եկեղեցի)

The Armenian Apostolic Church (Հայ Առաքելական Եկեղեցի), also called the Armenian Orthodox Church, is the national Oriental Orthodox church of Armenia, headed by the Catholicos of All Armenians at Holy Etchmiadzin.

Armenian cuisine

Armenian cuisine, the culinary tradition of the Armenian people (haykakan khohanots), features lavash bread, khorovats, tolma, khash, and harissa, split into Western and Eastern branches after the 1915 genocide, with UNESCO-recognized lavash and a 6,100-year-old Areni winery.

Armenian diaspora (Հայկական սփյուռք)

Armenian diaspora (Հայկական սփյուռք, Haykakan spyurk): global population of ethnic Armenians outside Armenia, about 6 million people across Russia, the United States, France, and the Middle East, formed by ancient trade colonies and the 1915 genocide.

Armenian diaspora literature

Armenian diaspora literature is literary writing by Armenians outside the homeland, mostly in Western Armenian and shaped by displacement and memory of the 1915 genocide.

Armenian dram (դրամ)

The Armenian dram (դրամ) is the national currency of Armenia, issued by the Central Bank of Armenia since November 1993, when it replaced the Soviet ruble at 200 rubles per dram.

Armenian fable tradition

The Armenian fable tradition is medieval Armenian allegorical fables teaching morals through animals, founded as a literary genre in the late 12th century by Mkhitar Gosh and Vardan Aygektsi.

Armenian fedayi

Armenian fedayi (Armenian: ֆիդայի), also called hayduks, were self-defense guerrillas active in Ottoman Western Armenia from the mid-1880s, led by figures like Andranik and Aghbyur Serob.

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide (Ermeni Soykirimi) was the destruction of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population by the Young Turk government from 1915 to 1916, through mass killings, deportations, and death marches.

Armenian genocide denial

Armenian genocide denial: rejection, minimization, or legalistic reframing of the 1915 genocide of Ottoman Armenians. Covers Turkish state institutionalization, denial arguments, recognition diplomacy, and the Perinçek v. Switzerland litigation.

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, or Medz Yeghern, is observed April 24 marking the 1915 arrest of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople; commemorates up to 1.5 million genocide victims, centered on Yerevan's Tsitsernakaberd memorial.

Armenian immigration to Argentina

Armenian immigration to Argentina is the settlement of Armenians mostly from the Ottoman Empire, with the main wave after the 1915 Armenian Genocide, concentrated in Buenos Aires.

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (Կիլիկիոյ Հայոց Թագավորություն)

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (Կիլիկիոյ Հայոց Թագավորություն), also called Lesser Armenia: Armenian state in southern Asia Minor, 1080–1375, ruled by Rubenid, Hetumid, and Lusignan dynasties, allied with Crusaders and Mongols, destroyed by the Mamluks.

Armenian language

Armenian (Հայերեն, Hayeren, ISO hy/hye/hyw) is an independent branch of Indo-European, official in Armenia, with Eastern and Western standards, a fifth-century Mashtots alphabet, grabar liturgy, and endangered Western Armenian.