Gawar

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Gawar
Գավառ
coat of arms
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State : ArmeniaArmenia Armenia
Province : Gegharkunik
Coordinates : 40 ° 21 ′  N , 45 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 21 ′  N , 45 ° 7 ′  E
 
Residents : 22,143 (2009)
Time zone : UTC + 4
 
Community type: city
Mayor : Gurgen Martirosjan (independent)
Website :
Gawar (Armenia)
Gawar
Gawar

Gawar ( Armenian Գավառ ) is the capital of the Armenian province (Mars) Gegharkunik . It is located west of Lake Sevan in the Armenian Highlands and has 22,143 inhabitants (as of 2009).

history

The Urartian king Rusa I , son of Sarduri , built a fortress called d Ḫaldiei URU KUR ( Ḫaldi town) on the steep rock above the city . It was supposed to protect the newly conquered Ueliḫi province .

The place was founded in 1830 by Armenian immigrants from the city of Beyazıt in today's Turkey and was therefore called Nor Bajaset (Armenian Նոր Բայազետ ) or Novo-Bajaset ( Russian Ново-Баязет , both meaning New Beyazıt ). The place received city rights in 1850 as the seat of a Ujesd in the governorate of Yerevan . During the time of the Soviet Union , the Armenian form of the name as Nor-Bajaset ( Нор-Баязет ) was also official in Russian from 1936 . From 1959 to 1996 the city was called Kamo, after the fighting name of the Georgian revolutionary of Armenian descent Semyon Ter-Petrosian .

economy

The city had more than 35,000 inhabitants in the 1980s, but after the fall of the Soviet Union, industrial production and with it employment and income opportunities largely collapsed, and the population fell sharply due to emigration, especially of men looking for work to Russia . Only in the last few years has a slight economic upturn been observed.

sons and daughters of the town

  • Samwel Kocharyanz (1909–1993), Armenian-Soviet electrical engineer and nuclear weapons technician

See also

Web links

Commons : Gawar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gavariqaghaqapetaran.am/ (accessed January 4, 2020)
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: World Gazetteer@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
  3. ↑ Г.А. Меликишвили, Урартские клинообразные надписи. Москва: Издательство АН СССР, 1960, No. 256