The first empires and kingdoms that were part of, or all of today's Armenia were the Urartu, the Persian Achaemenian, Alexander the Great's Macedonian Empire, the Seleucid, the Roman and the Byzantine. ... Dhilawala stated (1997 p. 113) "the military campaign drained resources from the new republic, and Iran and Turkey also imposed an economic blockade." ...

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