Editing Armed Forces of Armenia (section)

=== Early Armenian Army ===
{{Main|First Republic of Armenia}}An Armenian military corps was established to fight against the Ottomans during the [[Turkish–Armenian War]] in early 1918. In accordance with the [[Treaty of Batum]] of 4 June 1918 the Ottoman Empire demobilized most of the Armenian army.<ref>Hovannisian. ''Armenia on the Road to Independence'', pp. 197.</ref> Ethnic Armenian conscripts and volunteers in the [[Imperial Russian Army]] would later become the core of the military of the First Armenian Republic.[[File:Armenian_Fedayees_1890-1896.jpg|left|thumb|An [[Armenian fedayi]] group fighting under the [[Armenian Revolutionary Federation]] banner, ca. 1890s]]