Armenia And Finland: Early Contacts

Abstract

Finland unlike many other Western nations does not have longtime relations with the Armenian people. Nevertheless, it is more than 300 years that the Finns and Armenians know each other to a certain extent; moreover, some Finnish scholars have been interested in various fields of the Armenian reality . Over centuries the Armenians had only sporadic historical and cultural contacts with the Nordic states of Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Interestingly, in the 19th century, both Finland and Eastern Armenia, geographically so far from each other, were parts of the Russian Empire, thus, the two peoples were in the same administrative system for over a hundred years.