Yerevan (arm)

Yerevan

Yerevan ranks 148th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lviv, Genoa, and Oakland, California. Memorable people born in Yerevan include Armen Sarkissian, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, and Arno Babajanian. Memorable people who died in Yerevan include Sergei Parajanov, Khachatur Abovian, and Martiros Saryan. Yerevan has been the birth place of many soccer players and chess players and the death place of many writers and singers. Yerevan is located in Armenia.

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country, as its primate city. It has been the capital since 1918, the fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat Plain. The city also serves as the seat of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese, which is the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world. Read more on Wikipedia