| Show at the close of the russian revolution following the world Worl dwar war armenia established itself as a republic and in 1920 put out its first set ot of distinctive stamps toward the end of the same year it became a federated soviet republic and in 1921 issued soviet stamps in 1922 with azerbaijan and georgia it organized the socialist federated soviet republic this country lying south of cau can casia and the black sea and north of persia claims to have been the first nation to adopt tho the christian religion its capital la Is at erlyan and the capital of the federation Is at tiflis |