Armenia

Armenia (Arme`nia) , a country in Western Asia, W. of the Caspian Sea and N. of Kurdistan Mts., anciently independent, now divided between Turkey, Russia, and Persia, occupying a plateau interspersed with fertile valleys, which culminates in Mt. Ararat, in which the Euphrates and Tigris have their sources.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)