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Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland. The largest concentration is in Armenia, having a nearly homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian. Because of wide-ranging and long-lasting diaspora, an estimated total of 3 million people of full or partial Armenian ancestry live outside of Armenia. As a result of the Armenian Genocide, a large number of survivors fled to many countries throughout the world, most notably the Russian Empire, the Near East, the United States, France, Iran, Georgia and other parts of Europe. Christianity began to spread in Armenia soon after Jesus's death, due to the efforts of two of his apostles, St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew In the early 4th century, the Kingdom of Armenia became the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion. Most Armenians adhere to the Armenian Apostolic Church, a non-Chalcedonian church, which is also the world's oldest national church. Armenian is an Indo-European language isolate. Armenians speak two mutually intelligible and written forms of their language: Eastern Armenian, today spoken mainly in Armenia, Iran and the former Soviet republics, and Western Armenian, used in the historical Western Armenia and, after the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, primarily amongst the Armenian diaspora. The unique Armenian Alphabet was invented in 406 AD by the scholar and evangelizer Mesrob Mashtots.
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