Shirak
| Shirak | |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Armenia |
| Capital | Gyumri |
| surface | 2681 km² |
| Residents | 233,308 (2011) |
| density | 87 inhabitants per km² |
| ISO 3166-2 | AM-SH |
| Website | shirak.mtad.am (Armenian) |
| politics | |
| governor | Tigran Petrosian |
| Political party | independent |
Coordinates: 40 ° 51 ' N , 43 ° 54' E
Shirak ( [ ʃiˈɾɑk ] , Armenian Շիրակի մարզ , in scientific transliteration Širaki marz, translated province of Shirak, in English transcription Shirak) is the north-westernmost province of Armenia .
geography
Shirak borders in the south and southeast on the province of Aragazotn , in the east on the province of Lori , in the north on Georgia and in the west on Turkey .
233,308 people (as of 2011) live in the province on an area of 2681 km² . Provincial capital is the second largest city of Armenia Gyumri (formerly Alexandropol and 1924–1991 Leninakan ); other cities are Artik and the earlier urban-type Maralik settlement, which was elevated to cities in the 1990s . In addition to these three urban parishes, there are 116 rural parishes with a total of 128 villages; the largest villages (each with over 2000 inhabitants) are Achurjan , Asatan , Marmaschen , Mez Mantasch , Panik , Pemsaschen , Pokr Mantasch and Sarnaghbjur (as of 2011). Until the 1990s, today's villages Anipemsa and Pemsaschen also had the status of urban-type settlements.
economy
Mainly wheat and barley are grown in the Shirak plain.
history
The Shirak level had been Argišti I. part of the Urartian kingdom .
While the area belonged to the Russian Empire , the territory of the province largely corresponded to the western and major part of the Ujesds Alexandropol of the Yerevan governorate (from 1850).
On December 7, 1988, the Spitak earthquake shook the north of what was then the Armenian SSR of the Soviet Union . 25,000 people died; Large parts of present-day Shirak, in particular the city of Gyumri and its surrounding area, were also destroyed, and until the 2000s , people who had become homeless as a result of the quake lived in originally only provisional shelters.
Today's Shirak province was during the administrative reorganization within the framework of decentralization in Armenia in 1995 from existing in the Armenian SSR since 1930/37 Rajons Akhurian River, Amasia, Ani, Artik and Aschozk (until 1990 Gukassjan formed) and the rajonfreien cities Artik and Gyumri .
Web links
- Shirak Marz. Tourist guide in the Armenopedia (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://shirak.mtad.am/ (accessed January 5, 2020)
- ^ A b Adam T. Smith: The Making of an Urartian Landscape in Southern Transcaucasia: A Study of political Architectonics. American Journal of Archeology 103/1, 1999, pp. 47-48.
