Erebuni
Erebuni is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is situated southeast of the city centre where Erebuni Fortress is located. The name of Yerevan itself is derived from ancient Erebuni.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 130,000 residents
- Description: district of Yerevan
- Also known as: “Erebuni District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Erebuni Fortress and Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve.
Erebuni Fortress
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Erebuni Fortress is an Urartian fortified city, located in Yerevan, Armenia. It is 1,017 metres above sea level. It was one of several fortresses built along the northern Urartian border and was one of the most important political, economic and cultural centers of the vast kingdom.
Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve
Museum
Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Erebuni Historical-Archaeological Reserve-Museum, was established on October 19, 1968. The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 2750th anniversary of Yerevan.
Armenian Railways Museum
Museum
Photo: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Armenian Railways Museum is a railway museum in Yerevan, Armenia. On 31 July 2009, the South Caucasus Railway Company, a rail operator in Armenia, owned by Russian Railways, opened the Railway Museum in Yerevan in the building of Yerevan railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shengavit District and Nor Nork.
Shengavit District
Suburb
Photo: H-dayan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shengavit, is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, located at the southwestern part of the city. It has common borders with the districts of Malatia-Sebastia, Kentron, Erebuni and Nubarashen. Ararat Province forms the southern borders of the district. Shengavit District is situated 4½ km west of Erebuni.
Nor Nork
Suburb
Photo: Mosinyan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nor Nork is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is located at the eastern part of the city. It is bordered by the districts of Nork-Marash, Kentron and Kanaker-Zeytun from the west, Avan from the north and Erebuni from the south. Kotayk Province forms the eastern border of the district. Nor Nork is situated 6 km northeast of Erebuni.
Nork-Marash
Suburb
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Nork-Marash, is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is located to the east of the city centre. It is bordered by the Kentron District form the west and the north, Nor Nork from the east and Erebuni from the south. Nork-Marash is situated 4½ km north of Erebuni.
Erebuni
- Categories: District of Yerevan and locality
- Location: Erebuni, Yerevan, Central Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.1419° or 40° 8′ 31″ northLongitude
44.5334° or 44° 32′ 0″ eastPopulation
130,000Elevation
1,005 metres (3,297 feet)Open location code
8HG64GRM+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 11422692132OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
866152Wikidata ID
Q390360
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Erebuni” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إريبوني”
- Armenian: “Erebuni varch’akan shrjan”
- Armenian: “Erebuni”
- Armenian: “Էրեբունի վարչական շրջան”
- Armenian: “Էրեբունի”
- Azerbaijani: “Erebuni”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ئێرەبونی”
- Chinese: “Erebouni”
- Chinese: “埃雷布尼区”
- Chinese: “埃雷布尼區”
- Danish: “Erebuni”
- Dutch: “Ereboeni”
- Dutch: “Erebuni”
- Esperanto: “Erebuno”
- French: “Erebouni”
- Galician: “distrito de Erebuni”
- Georgian: “ერებუნის რაიონი”
- German: “Erebuni”
- Italian: “Erebuni”
- Japanese: “エレブニ区”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Erebouni”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Erebuni”
- Ossetian: “Эребуни”
- Persian: “اربونی”
- Persian: “ناحیه اربونی”
- Polish: “Erebuni (dzielnica)”
- Polish: “Erebuni”
- Russian: “Эребуни”
- Spanish: “Erebuni”
- Swedish: “Erebuni, Jerevan”
- Swedish: “Erebuni”
- Telugu: “ఎరెబుని జిల్లా”
- Turkish: “Erebuni”
- Ukrainian: “Еребуні”
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