Artashat

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Artashat
Արտաշատ
Modren Artashat
Modren Artashat
Artashat Արտաշատ is located in Armenie
Artashat Արտաշատ
Artashat
Արտաշատ
Coordinates: 39°57′14″N 44°33′02″E / 39.95389°N 44.55056°E / 39.95389; 44.55056
Kintra Armenie
MarzArarat
Foondit176 B.C.[1]
Govrenment
 • MayorGagik Muradyan
Area
 • Total10 km2 (4 sq mi)
Elevation
2000 m (7,000 ft)
Population
 • Total25,300
 • Density2530/km2 (6,600/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+4 (GMT+4)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (GMT+5)
WebsiteArtashat official website
Sources: Population [2]

Artashat (Armenie: Արտաշատ; Hellenisit as Artaxata: Greek: Ἀρτάξατα), is a ceety on Araks River in the Ararat valley, 30 km sootheast o Yerevan. Being ane o the auldest ceeties o Armenie, Artashat is the caipital o Ararat Province. Modren Artashat is situatit on the Yerevan-Nakhichevan-Baku an Nakhichevan-Tabriz railwa an on Yerevan-Goris-Stepanakert heich-gate. The name o the ceety is derived frae Iranian leids an means the "joy o Arta".[1][3] Foondit bi King Artashes I in 176 B.C., Artashat servit as the caipital o the Kinrick o Armenie frae 185 BC till 120 AD, an wis kent as the Vostan Hayots, the "court" or "seat o the Armenies."[1]

Present-day Artashat is a mid-sizit ceety an haes a population o 25,300 fowk. It is locatit 5 km northwast frae historical Artashat.

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  1. a b c Hewsen, Robert H. Artaxata. Iranica. Accessed February 25, 2008.
  2. Armstats:Population
  3. (in Armenie) Tiratsyan, Gevorg. «Արտաշատ» (Artashat). Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. vol. ii. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1976, pp. 135-136.
  4. Artashat urban community[deid airtin]