Armenia is in the top ten of the oldest countries in the world, The Culture Trip reported.

According to the websitee, over the millennia, countless nations and countries have arisen and disappeared, but some have stuck around. For various reasons it is impossible to say absolutely which of the countries of the top which includes Greece, China, Portugal, France, Armenia, Japan, Iran, San Marino, Ethiopia, Egypt, is the oldest.

As it was noted in the article much like the Jewish people, Armenia is a nation well known for its great diaspora.

“Nonetheless, the Armenians have possessed a country for most of the last 2600 years, with the first mentions of Armenia occurring in the 6th century BCE. Yerevan, now the capital of Armenia, was founded as far back as 782 BCE. The Armenians were also the first state to officially accept Christianity as a state religion in 301, and the country still adheres very strongly to their own Armenian Apostolic Church. Besides the diaspora, another unfortunate similarity that the Armenians share with the Jews was a genocide perpetrated against them at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16,” the article noted.