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ARMENIAN CAPITAL YEREVAN CELEBRATES ITS 2795TH ANNIVERSARY
by Tatevik Shahunyan
Friday, October 11, 11:19
Armenian capital Yerevan celebrates its 2795th Anniversary 11-12
October.
Festivities will start from Erebuni Museum Reserve and the Erebuni
Fortress, built in the last quarter of the 8th century BC by King
Argishti I, and embrace the entire city.
Delegations from 30 cities of 17 countries have arrived in Armenia to
congratulate Yerevan on the Anniversary. CoE International Conference
will convene in Yerevan on sidelines of the event. The conference
will discuss management and improvement of the living standards in
Yerevan and related issues.
Erebuni-Yerevan has been celebrated in Armenia since October 1968 when
Yerevan became 2750 year old. A cuneiform inscription testifies that
the city was built by Argishti I the King of Urartu in 782 BCE. The
Museum stands at the foot of the Arin Berd hill, on top of which the
Urartian Fortress Erebouni has stood since 782 BCE. Erebuni Yerevan
is older than Rome, and as old as Babylon, Persepolis, and Nineveh.
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by Tatevik Shahunyan
Friday, October 11, 11:19
Armenian capital Yerevan celebrates its 2795th Anniversary 11-12
October.
Festivities will start from Erebuni Museum Reserve and the Erebuni
Fortress, built in the last quarter of the 8th century BC by King
Argishti I, and embrace the entire city.
Delegations from 30 cities of 17 countries have arrived in Armenia to
congratulate Yerevan on the Anniversary. CoE International Conference
will convene in Yerevan on sidelines of the event. The conference
will discuss management and improvement of the living standards in
Yerevan and related issues.
Erebuni-Yerevan has been celebrated in Armenia since October 1968 when
Yerevan became 2750 year old. A cuneiform inscription testifies that
the city was built by Argishti I the King of Urartu in 782 BCE. The
Museum stands at the foot of the Arin Berd hill, on top of which the
Urartian Fortress Erebouni has stood since 782 BCE. Erebuni Yerevan
is older than Rome, and as old as Babylon, Persepolis, and Nineveh.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=82448E30-3245-11E3-9C760EB7C0D21663