Yerevan

Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital of Armenia, and the largest city. It’s on the cost of the river Hrazdan, was funded in 782 B.C. (before Christ) on the eastern edge of the plain of Mount Ararat. It’s turn into one of the biggest in the region, home of the most important cultural associations. It has its own University Academy of Sciences, the National Museum and a lot of public libraries.

 In the city there are the ruins of a fortress Urartians of about 3000 years ago. Other important buildings are the Cathedral, the Old Market and Yerevan Opera.

History:

Yerevan is accredited by a trail of the king Urartu Argishti I.

It’s one of the oldest cities in the world.

Yerevan is the name used since the second Century under the rule of the Persians.

In Turkish-Persians wars, the city changed hands fourteen times between 1513 and 1737. In 1604 under the command of Abbas the Great thousands of Armenians were deported to Persia.

On June 7^th, 1679, a devastating earthquake hit the city. In 1918 after the First World War was declared capital of the new Democratic Republic of Armenia. That same year, Yerevan faced the treat of Ottoman Turkish forces, who came up to 7 Km from the city. Only the signature of the treaty of Batum could save the capital of Armenia.

On December 4^th, 1920 was occupied by Red Army troops who dissolved the Republic. On February 16^th, 1921, an insurrection broke out anti-soviet in the city that can’t be suppressed until April 2^nd. Yerevan remained the capital of Armenia this time under the guise of Soviet Socialist or Soviet Union. During this period transformed the city into a modern industrial metropolis.

Following the dismantling of the Soviet Union Yerevan became the capital of the Republic of Armenia on September 21^st 1991.