Jerasch
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Jerasch Երասխ |
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 Armenia
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| Province : | Ararat | ||
| Founded : | 684 | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 44 ′ N , 44 ° 50 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 713 (2001) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 4 | ||
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Yerash ( Armenian Երասխ , Russian Ерасх , in English transcription Yeraskh ) is a place in Armenia .
geography
It is located in the province of Ararat on the border with the Azerbaijani enclave Nakhichevan . In 2001 it had 713 inhabitants.
history
Jerasch was founded in 684 and was previously called Arasdajan.
There is a German war cemetery from the Second World War , where 110 prisoners of war were buried. It was repaired in 2002.
During the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict , the town was shelled with artillery by the Azerbaijani side in the early 1990s , and many residents left Jerash as a result.
traffic
Jerasch has a train station on the Yerevan – Dscholfa railway line, which opened in 1908 . Cross-border traffic to Azerbaijan has been discontinued since the early 1990s, and according to the current timetable (2014), only one pair of trains runs in passenger traffic .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armenian census from 2001 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ↑ Brady Kiesling: Rediscoving Armenia p. 49, PDF ( Memento from July 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b The Caucasian Knot , from min. 27. Documentation by Dietmar Schuhmann, ZDF Infokanal.
- ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV , under Arasdajan
- ↑ Timetable of the Armenian Railway for the Yerevan-Yerash line .