Levon Ter-Petrosyan

Levon Ter-Petrosyan

Levon Hakobi Ter-Petrosyan (Armenian: Լևոն Հակոբի Տեր-Պետրոսյան; born 9 January 1945), also known by his initials LTP, is an Armenian politician and historian who served as the first president of Armenia from 1991 until his resignation in 1998. A senior researcher at the Matenadaran, he led the Karabakh movement for the unification of the Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia which began in 1988. After Armenia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in September 1991, Ter-Petrosyan was elected president in October 1991 with overwhelming public support. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Levon Ter-Petrosyan has received more than 315,877 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Levon Ter-Petrosyan is the 4,303rd most popular politician (down from 4,249th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Syria (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Syrian Politician.

Levon Ter-Petrosyan was the president of Armenia from 1991 to 1998. He is most famous for his work to end the Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in the early 1990s.