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Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country, as its primate city. It has been the capital since 1918, the fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat Plain.
Armenia is divided into ten provinces (marzer, singular marz), with the city (kaghak) of Yerevan (Երևան) having special administrative status as the country's capital. The chief executive in each of the ten provinces is the marzpet ( marz governor), appointed by the government of Armenia.
The history of modern Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, traces its roots back to Erebuni Fortress [1][2][3] an ancient Urartian fortified monument from which also the modern city of Yerevan derives its name. [4][5][6] The earliest reference to Yerevan in the medieval records dates from 607 A.D. [1][7] Located one in the bottommost parts of the ...
Two-thirds of the population are now urbanized. Statistically, 63.6% of Armenians live in urban areas as compared to 36.4% in rural, as of 2017. [1] Yerevan, Gyumri, and Vanadzor are the three largest urban settlements of the republic, currently having populations of more than 50,000. They were considered as "cities of republican subordination ...
City Period Years Duration, years 1 Sugunia: Kingdom of Ararat: 860 BC–858 BC 2 2 Arzashkun: Kingdom of Ararat: 858 BC–850s BC 1-8 3 Tushpa (Van) Kingdom of Ararat: 832 BC–590 BC 242 4 [2] Armavir: Orontid dynasty: 331–210 BC 121 5 Yervandashat: Orontid dynasty and Artaxiad dynasty: 210–176 BC 34 6 Artaxata (Artashat) Artaxiad dynasty
After the fall of Urartu around 585 BC, the Satrapy of Armenia arose, ruled by the Armenian Orontid Dynasty, which governed the state in 585–190 BC. Under the Orontids, Armenia during this era was a satrapy of the Persian Empire, and after its disintegration (in 330 BC), it became an independent kingdom.
Geography of Armenia. Armenia is a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region of the Caucasus. The country is geographically located in West Asia, within the Armenian plateau. [1][2][3] Armenia is bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran, Azerbaijan's exclave Nakhchivan, and Turkey.
Azerbaijan. Artsakh (/ ˈɑːrtsɑːx, - sæx / ART-sa (h)kh), officially the Republic of Artsakh[d] or the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (/ nəˌɡɔːrnoʊ kərəˈbɑːk / nə-GOR-noh kər-ə-BAHK), [e][7] was a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory was internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Between 1991 and 2023 ...