Kanaker Sejtun

Kanaker-Sejtun (Քանաքեռ-Զեյթուն) district of Yerevan
height	1280  m
surface	8 km²
Residents	73,886 (2011)
Population density	9236 inhabitants / km²
Website	yerevan.am/en/districts/qanaqer-zeytun
politics
mayor	Karen Hakobjan

Kanaker-Sejtun [z-] ( Armenian Քանաքեռ-Զեյթուն ) is a district in the northeast of Yerevan , the capital of Armenia . The municipality was created as a merger of the places Kanaker and Nor Sejtun and borders on the districts of Awan , Arabkir , Kentron , and Nor Nork .

The artist Chatschatur Abovjan and the musician Dschiwan Gasparjan come from Kanaker.

Nor Zeytun was founded between 1946 and 1948 by Armenian immigrants from Lebanon , Syria , Egypt , Iran , Iraq and Greece . The name Sejtun (Zeytun) is the old name of the city of Süleymanlı in what is now the Turkish province of Maraş .

Kanaker-Sejtun today has a population of 79,600 and an area of ​​8.1 km² (as of 2011). The district is located at an altitude of 1280 m above sea level. The mayor is Arajik Kotanschjan.

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Panorama of the Kanaker-Sejtun district of Yerevan

Web links

• Report on the results of the 2011 Armenian census (PDF; 637 kB), National Statistics Service of the Republic of Armenia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.yerevan.am/en/districts/qanaqer-zeytun/ (accessed January 9, 2020)

Coordinates: 40 ° 13 ′ 12 ″  N , 44 ° 32 ′ 18 ″  E