Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its origins go back to the fortress of Erebuni, founded by the Urartian king Argishti I, as recorded in a cuneiform inscription found on the site. The city grew slowly under Persian, Ottoman and Russian rule, and it became the capital of the independent Armenian republic in 1918, and then of Soviet Armenia. In the 1920s the architect Alexander Tamanian drew up a plan for a modern city with circular avenues and wide squares, built largely from pink volcanic tuff, which gave Yerevan its nickname of the Pink City. Mount Ararat is visible from the city.
Before and after
- from 9th century BCE to 4th century BCEAchaemenid dynasty
- 9th century BCEConstruction of Roman Forum
- from 8th century BCE to 3rd centuryClassical antiquity
- from c. 800 BCE to 800 CEHerrera Period
- c. 782 BCEOrigins of Yerevan
- from c. 782 BCE to 595 BCEConstruction of Erebuni Fortress
- from c. 776 BCE to 500 CEAncient Olympic Games
- from c. 771 BCE to 476 BCESpring and Autumn period
- c. 754 BCERomulus founds Rome (traditional date)
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The era
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