Vagharshapat

Vagharshapat is the 4th-largest metropolis in Armenia and the maximum populous municipal community of Armavir Province, positioned about 18 km west of the capital Yerevan, and 10 km north of the closed Turkish-Armenian border. It is typically called Ejmiatsin, which became its professional call among 1945 and 1995. It continues to be commonly used colloquially and in authentic bureaucracy.

The city is first-rate known as the vicinity of Etchmiadzin Cathedral and Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the center of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is hence unofficially acknowledged in Western sources as a "holy city"and in Armenia as the united states of america's "spiritual capital". It was one of the main cities and a capital of historic Greater Armenia. Reduced to a small metropolis via the early 20th century, it skilled big enlargement during the Soviet period becoming, efficiently, a suburb of Yerevan. Its populace stands simply over 37,000 primarily based on 2016 estimates.

The territory of historic Vagharshapat was inhabited because the third millennium BC. Many sites, together with Metsamor Castle, Shresh hill and Mokhrablur hill date lower back to the neolithic length. The first written information about Vagharshapat had been located in the inscriptions left by the Urartian king Rusa II, wherein it became stated as Kuarlini. The inscription located inside the archaeological site of ancient Vagharshapat cites to a water canal opened with the aid of king Rusa II, between Ildaruni river and the valley of Kuarlini.