Vagharshapat

Vagharshapat Վաղարշապատ
Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat
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Vagharshapat
Coordinates: 40°10′22″N 44°17′33″E
Kintra	Armenie
Marz (Province)	Armavir
Established	685 BC
Govrenment
• Mayor	Karen Manvel Grigoryan
Area
• Total	44.24 km2 (17.08 sq mi)
Elevation	853 m (2,799 ft)
Population  (2009)
• Total	57,300
• Density	1295/km2 (3,350/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+4 ( )
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 ( )
Area code(s)	0231
Website	offeecial wabsteid
Sources: Population

Vagharshapat (Armenie: Վաղարշապատ), commonly kent as Ejmiatsin in Eastren Armenie an Echmiadzin in Wastren Armenie (Armenie: Էջմիածին), is the fowert-lairgest ceety in Armenie an the spiritual centre o the Armenies, as it is the seat o the Catholicos o Aw Armenies, the heid o the Holy Armenie Apostolic Kirk. It is the maist populous ceety in Armavir Province, locatit aboot 18 km wast o Yerevan, 25 km east o the regional centre o Armavir, anerlie 10 km north o the Armenie-Turkis border. The 1989 census coontit the population o Ejmiatsin as 61,000; it haes declined somewha syne: 58,388 in the 2001 census, an an estimatit 56,757 in 2008.

Internaitional relations

Map o modren-day Vagharshapat

Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin) is a memmer o the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) since 2007.

Sister ceeties

Currently, Vagharshapat-Ejmiatsin haes 6 sister ceeties:

• Issy-les-Moulineaux, Fraunce syne 1989
• Petrozavodsk, Roushie syne 2004
• Fresno, Californie, USA syne 2009
• Sergiyev Posad, Roushie syne 2010
• Hadrut, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic syne 2010
• Martakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic syne 2010

References

• Vagharshapat at GEOnet Names Server

Freemit airtins

• Armenia Photos: The Holy Ceety o Etchmiadzin Archived 2009-10-02 at the Wayback Machine - bi East-Site.com
• Etchmiadzin Auld Photos Archived 2014-08-16 at the Wayback Machine - bi ChurchInArmenia.com