Malatia-Sebastia

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Coat of arms of Yerevan
Malatia-Sebastia (Մալաթիա-Սեբաստիա)
district of Yerevan
Malatia-Sebastia in Yerevan
height 950  m
surface 25.8 km²
Residents 135,400 (2015)
Population density 5248 inhabitants / km²
Website yerevan.am/en/districts/malatia-sebastia
politics
mayor David Karapetjan

Coordinates: 40 ° 10 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 44 ° 26 ′ 44.8 ″  E

The Malatia-Sebastia District ( Armenian Մալաթիա-Սեբաստիա ) is one of the 12 districts of the Armenian capital Yerevan and is located in the western part of the city. In the north it borders on the Adschapnjak district , in the east on Kentron and in the south on Schengawit .

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View of Malatia-Sebastia, 2014

The community was founded by survivors of the Armenian genocide from the former Armenian settlements of Malatya and Sivas (Sebasteia) in what is now Turkey . Even today the settlement is considered one of the poorest in the city of Yerevan. In 2011 it had 141,900 inhabitants and an area of ​​25.8 km².

Zvartnots International Airport is located in the south-west of Malatya-Sebastya .

In Malatia-Sebastia there is a chess school run by Grand Master Levon Babudschjan .

Twin town

The twin town of the Malatya-Sebastia district is the south-eastern French city of Draguignan . In 2002, Draguignan's Mayor Max Piselli and the head of Malatya-Sebastia Aghwan Grigorjan signed a cooperation memorandum. An official partnership agreement was sealed on March 17, 2017, signed by the Deputy Head of Malatya-Sebastia and the Mayor of Draguignan Richard Strambio . The partnership relates primarily to cooperation in the fields of culture, social affairs, business, sport and tourism. A delegation from Draguignan, for example, visited Malatya-Sebastya in October 2017 for the city anniversary celebrations of Erebuni-Yerevan 2799 .

Panorama of the Malatya-Sebastya district of Yerevan

Web links

Commons : Malatia-Sebastia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.yerevan.am/en/districts/malatia-sebastia/ (accessed January 9, 2020)
  2. Levon Babudschjan ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Woo Chess. Retrieved July 1, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / woochess.com
  3. Yerevan's twin cities on the website of the city of Yerevan (English)
  4. L'amitié est repartie entre Draguignan et Malatya-Sebastia . Article from April 3, 2017 in the daily Var-Matin (French)
  5. Mayor Taron Margaryan meets with the members of the delegation of Draguignan (France) . Press release from October 13, 2017