Every year on January 28, Armenia celebrates Army Day, a national holiday that honors the Armed Forces of Armenia and remembers their long and difficult history. It’s also the anniversary of the founding of the Armenian Army in the early years of Armenia’s modern independence. Army Day is a public and non-working holiday in Armenia. It was first celebrated as an official holiday in 2001 when the government made it an official day off. Since then, state ceremonies and tributes to the military tak