Erivan Fortress
Erivan Fortress or Yerevan Fortress was a 16th-century fortress in Yerevan.Photo: Franz Roubaud, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Red Bridge and Yerevan History Museum.
Red Bridge
Bridge
Photo: GeoO, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Red Bridge is a 17th-century bridge built of red tuff on the Hrazdan River in Yerevan, Armenia. An earlier bridge in the same place was ruined by the 1679 Armenia earthquake. Red Bridge is situated 400 metres northwest of Erivan Fortress.
Yerevan History Museum
Museum
Photo: 23artashes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Yerevan History Museum is the history museum of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. The museum was founded in 1931 as the Communal Museum. Currently, the museum is located in a building attached to the Yerevan City Hall. Yerevan History Museum is situated 640 metres north of Erivan Fortress.
Blue Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Blue Mosque is an 18th-century Iranian Twelver Shia mosque, located in Yerevan, Armenia. It was commissioned by Hoseyn Ali Khan, the khan of the Erivan Khanate. Blue Mosque is situated 1 km north of Erivan Fortress.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kond and Verin Shengavit.
Kond
Neighborhood
Photo: Stamboltsyan, Public domain.
Kond is one of the oldest quarters of Yerevan. It is situated within the boundaries of the modern-day Kentron District of the capital of Armenia. According to Hovhannes Shahkhatunyants, an Armenian historian, Kond is located at the western and southern hillsides and foot of a rocky hill with similar name.
Nor Butania
Neighborhood
Nor Butania, is a neighbourhood in the Erebuni District of Yerevan, Armenia.
Erivan Fortress
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: 16th century fortress, Yerevan, Armenia
- Categories: fortress, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Yerevan, Central Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.16864° or 40° 10′ 7″ northLongitude
44.50216° or 44° 30′ 8″ eastOpen location code
8HG65G92+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 1354516594OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q12073345
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Erivan Fortress” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة إيروان”
- Armenian: “Երևանի բերդ”
- Asturian: “Castiellu de Yereván”
- Azerbaijani: “İrəvan qalası”
- Catalan: “Castell de Yerevan”
- Catalan: “fortalesa d’Erevan”
- Central Kurdish: “قەڵای ئێریڤان”
- Chinese: “埃裏溫堡壘”
- Chinese: “埃里温堡垒”
- Chinese: “埃里溫堡壘”
- Chinese: “葉裏萬堡”
- Chinese: “葉里萬堡”
- Esperanto: “Fortikaĵo Erevano”
- Georgian: “ერევნის ციხესიმაგრე”
- Hebrew: “מבצר אריוואן”
- Italian: “Fortezza di Erivan”
- Japanese: “エレブニ要塞”
- Persian: “قلعه ایروان”
- Russian: “Ереванская крепость”
- Russian: “Эриванская крепость”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Erevan”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Ereván”
- Spanish: “fortaleza de Erevan”
- Spanish: “fortaleza de Ereván”
- Swedish: “Jerevans fästning”
- Swedish: “Jerivans fästning”
- Turkish: “Erivan Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Еріванська фортеця”
- Ukrainian: “Єреванська фортеця”
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