Ararat (Ararat)
Ararat (Արարատ) is a town and urban municipal community in the Ararat Province of Armenia, located on the Yerevan-Nakhchivan highway, 42 km southeast of the capital Yerevan and 19 km south of the provincial centre Artashat. In the 2011 census, the population of the town was 20,235. As per the 2016 official estimate, the population is around 20,300.
The town was officially named Ararat in 1947 after the nearby biblical Mountains of Ararat. Ararat (Արարատ, Ararat; Western Armenian: Ararad; אֲרָרָט).
The town was officially named Ararat in 1947 after the nearby biblical Mountains of Ararat. Ararat (Արարատ, Ararat; Western Armenian: Ararad; אֲרָרָט).
Map - Ararat (Ararat)
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Country - Armenia
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Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. The first Armenian state of Urartu was established in 860 BC, and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC and in the year 301 became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion. The ancient Armenian kingdom was split between the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires around the early 5th century. Under the Bagratuni dynasty, the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia was restored in the 9th century. Declining due to the wars against the Byzantines, the kingdom fell in 1045 and Armenia was soon after invaded by the Seljuk Turks. An Armenian principality and later a kingdom Cilician Armenia was located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between the 11th and 14th centuries.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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AMD | Armenian dram | Ö | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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HY | Armenian language |