This day in history.
On June 4, 1918, the Treaty of Batum was signed between the #Ottoman_Empire and the three Transcaucasian states - #Armenia, #Georgia, and #Azerbaijan. A German diplomat made the following comment: "Turks gave space to Armenians to swim in (lake) Sevan but they didn't give them space to come out and get dried."
The treaty was signed while the Ottoman Third Army held positions 7 km from the capital Yerevan and only 10 km from the Holy City of Echmiadzin. In the surrendered territories the majority of the 1,250,000 pre-war inhabitants had been Armenians (many refugees from the #ArmenianGenocide who escaped from #WesternArmenia), with more than 400,000 in the ceded sector of Yerevan province alone.
