One of the medium-sized cities in present-day Colombia, with a population of around 300 thousand, is called Armenia. According to its Wikipedia entry, some people believe it was named in memory of the Armenian victims of the Hamidian massacres of 1894–97 and the genocide of 1915–23, but this cannot be true since the city's name was decided by a vote held on 30 November 1889, little more than a month after foundation and five years before the first-mentioned massacres began.

So how come this city in South America has exactly the same name as a country in the Caucausus?

One of the medium-sized cities in present-day Colombia, with a population of around 300 thousand, is called Armenia. According to its Wikipedia entry, some people believe it was named in memory of the Armenian victims of the Hamidian massacres of 1894–97 and the genocide of 1915–23, but this cannot be true since the city's name was decided by a vote held on 30 November 1889, little more than a month after foundation and five years before the first-mentioned massacres began.

So how come this city in South America has exactly the same name as a country in the Caucasus?