By the end of May 1918 , Armenians were able to defeat the Turkish army in the battles of Sardarabad , Abaran and Karakilisa . Thus , on 28 May 1918 , the Dashnak leader Aram Manukian declared the independence of Armenia . Subsequently , Yerevan became the capital and the center of the newly founded Republic of Armenia , although the members of the Armenian National Council were yet to stay in Tiflis until their arrival in Yerevan to form the government in the summer of the same year . Armenia became a parliamentary republic with four administrative divisions . The capital Yerevan was part of the '' Araratian Province '' . At the time , Yerevan received more than 75,000 refugees from Western Armenia , who escaped the massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks during the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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