ARMENIA

ARMENIA

Armenia has one of the oldest capitals in the world, Yerevan, known as the
Pink City.
The 13th capital of Armenia, Yerevan, is one of the oldest cities in the world,
located in the northeastern part of the Ararat Valley. It was founded in BC.
782 By King Argishti I. The city of Yerevan is 29 years older than Rome.

Armenia is a country of ancient monasteries and churches.
The first church in the world was built in Armenia.
The Mother Cathedral of Etchmiadzin is the first official church built in the IV
century. The first Catholicos, Gregory the Illuminator, had a dream in which
Christ descended from heaven with a fire hammer in his hand, showing the
place where the temple was being built. 303 In the place where an ancient
pagan temple was built at that time, a church named Etchmiadzin was
established.

EREVAN

BC In the 9th century, in the basin of Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands,
the Armenian (Araratian) kingdom of Van, Urartu, Biaynili, emerged. The
founder of the state was King Arame. The kingdom of Van was one of the
most developed powers of the time.
In the 5th year of his reign, King Argishti I, in BC In 782, he founded the
fortress-city of Erebuni, present-day Yerevan, which became one of the most
important administrative centers of the country. The exact date of the
founding of Erebuni is known from the cuneiform inscription that has
reached us.

"By the greatness of the Khaldi god, Argishti, the son of Menua, says: I built
this powerful fortress, I named Erebuni for the power of Biaynil's country, for
terribly hostile countries. Argishti says. The land was desolate, I did great
deeds there in the greatness of the god Khald, Argishti, the son of Menua, the
mighty king, the king of the land of Biaynil, the lord of the city of Tushpa

National Gallery of Armenia

The National Gallery of Armenia is the country’s major art gallery.Its collection is
displayed in 56 galleries,which aiiow the Gallery to tell the story of national
visual arts,decorative-applied arts as well as worid culture from ancient times to
our days. In the halls of European, Russian, Armenian and Oriental art the
visitors are introduced to the art of Aivazovsky, Sarian, Kandinsky, Donatello and
other distinguished artists.