Arabkir

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Coat of arms of Yerevan
Arabkir (Արաբկիր)
district of Yerevan
Arabkir in Yerevan
surface 12.35 km²
Residents 130,600 (2011)
Population density 10,575 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation 1925
Website yerevan.am/en/districts/arabkir
politics
mayor Aram Danieljan

The Arabkir District ( Armenian Արաբկիր ) is a district in Yerevan , the capital of Armenia .

geography

Arabkir has an area of ​​12.35 km². It is north of the city center and borders the Hrasdan River to the north and west, the Kentron district to the south, the Kanaker-Zeytun district to the east, and the Awan district to the northeast .

It is one of the most densely populated districts of Yerevan. In 2005, the population of Arabkirs was 131,600, of which 59,100 were men and 72,500 women. In 2011 Arabkir had 130,600 inhabitants.

history

Arabkir was on 29 November 1925 as the village of Armenians established in the genocide of 1917 from Arapgir in the Ottoman province of Malatya were expelled.

Infrastructure

The Arabkir station is on the Yerevan – Sotk railway line and used to be Yerevan's “North Station”. Since the conflicts following the independence of Armenia, the line and the station have only been in operation sporadically.

panorama

Town twinning

The district administration of Arabkir has officially worked with Le Plessis-Robinson , a suburb of Paris ( France ) , since 2005 . Since 2006, there has also been cooperation with the central district of Riga ( Latvia ), Antwerp's Deurne district ( Belgium ) and the city of Şişli in Istanbul ( Turkey ). The district administration has signed cooperation agreements with all of these cities and districts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.yerevan.am/en/districts/arabkir/ (accessed January 9, 2020)
  2. Official Website Arabkirs. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 23, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arabkir.am  
  3. ^ See: Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006. ISBN 954-12-0128-8 , p. 6, note 1.
  4. Official Website Arabkirs. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 23, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arabkir.am  

Coordinates: 40 ° 12 ′ 28 ″  N , 44 ° 30 ′ 21 ″  E