where is the country of armenia?
Turkey Georgia Azerbaijan
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 Since the country 's independence , the Armenian men 's chess team has won the European Team Championship ( 1999 ) , the World Team Championship ( 2011 ) and the Chess Olympiad ( 2006 , 2008 , 2012 ) . The women 's team had its crowning victory at the 2003 European Championship . As of February 2016 , Armenia ranks seventh in the world by the average rating of its top players . Levon Aronian , Armenia 's best chess player , is currently world No. 4 in the FIDE rankings . Aronian was a World Champion candidate several times . 

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 A number of Armenians joined the advancing 11th Soviet Red Army . Afterward , Turkey and the newly proclaimed Soviet republics in the Caucasus negotiated the Treaty of Kars , in which Turkey resigned from its claims to Batumi to Georgia in exchange for the Kars territory , corresponding to the modern @-@ day Turkish provinces of Kars , Iğdır , and Ardahan . The medieval Armenian capital of Ani , as well as the cultural icon of the Armenian people Mount Ararat , were located in the ceded area . Additionally , Joseph Stalin , then acting Commissar for Nationalities , granted the areas of Nakhchivan and Nagorno @-@ Karabakh ( both of which were promised to Armenia by the Bolsheviks in 1920 ) to Azerbaijan . 

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 = = = Early stages and independence of Armenia = = = 

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 With the republic suffering heavy losses after the war , Stalin allowed an open immigration policy in Armenia ; the diaspora were invited to repatriate to Armenia ( nergaght ) and revitalize the country 's population and bolster its workforce . Armenians living in countries such as Cyprus , France , Greece , Iraq , Lebanon , and Syria were primarily the survivors or the descendants of the genocide . They were offered the option of having their expenses paid by the Soviet government for their trip back to their homeland . An estimated 150 @,@ 000 Armenians immigrated to Soviet Armenia between 1946 and 1948 and settled in Yerevan , Leninakan , Kirovakan and other towns . 

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 = = = Independent Armenia = = = 
