Ijevan
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Ijevan Իջեւան |
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| Province : | Tavush | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 53 ' N , 45 ° 9' E | ||
| Height : | 732 m | ||
| Residents : | 15,536 (2009) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 4 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+374) 263 | ||
| Postal code : | 4001, 4002 | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
| Mayor : | Hajk Ghalumjan (independent) | ||
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Ijevan ( Armenian Իջևան , until 1961 Karawansarai ) is the capital of the Armenian province of Tavush .
The city is a center of the Transcaucasian carpet production and since 1994 the location of a branch of the Yerevan State University .
geography
Ischewan has around 15,000 inhabitants (as of 2001). The city is located in a valley on the Aghstew River and is 142 km away from the Armenian capital Yerevan . The M4 trunk road from Yerevan to Qazax in Azerbaijan runs through Ijevan, but since the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict it is no longer possible to cross the border, which is 18 kilometers away . The Ağstafa – Atarbenian railway , which forms part of the connection between Yerevan and Baku , also runs through the city, but has also not been in operation since the war of the 1990s.
history
In 1920 the armed uprising against the Dashnak government of the Democratic Republic of Armenia began in Karawansarai . On November 28, 1920, the Soviet 11th Army marched into Armenia via Karavansarai. The local revolutionary committee then sent news of the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia to Moscow. This event is represented in the city and revolution museum.
Personalities
- Nikol Pashinyan (* 1975), politician and Prime Minister of Armenia; born in Ijevan
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://ijevancity.am/Pages/DocFlow/Default.aspx?a=v&g=9e945ef1-65ae-4658-b398-4b6b06cd5d45 (accessed January 4, 2020)