Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country. The territory of Yerevan is 233 sq. km., at an altitude of 900-1300, above sea level. The population of Yerevan is 1.200.000 people.
The 12th capital of Armenia, Yerevan is 2802 years old, but at the same time it is one of the youngest cities of the world. The city’s chronology is traced back to the foundation of the Erebuni Fortress in 782 BC by King Argishti I of Urartu. With Erebuni as a reference point, Yerevan is in fact 29 years older than Eternal Rome. In addition, many churches and temples have been preserved attesting to the fact that there was life in Yerevan in the Middle Ages. Nonetheless, Yerevan is a modern city, and its current image was formed in the middle 20th century.
Yerevan has a fascinating panorama. To the north, it opens out onto the massifs of four peaked Aragats and Ara, and to the south onto the Ararat Valley and the ice-capped peaks of Mount Ararat. So this is one of the reasons that biblical Mount Ararat is the symbol of the city.
Since 1918, Yerevan is the first capital city of Republic of Armenia. Welcome to old and new Yerevan, the city of history and hospitality!