page_title: Yerevan
section_title: Partnerships
hierarchical_section_title: Yerevan / International relations / Partnerships
caption_attribution_description: English: Place de France, Yerevan
context_page_description: Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country. It has been the capital since 1918, the fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat plain. The city also serves as the seat of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese; the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world.
  The history of Yerevan dates back to the 8th century BC, with the founding of the fortress of Erebuni in 782 BC by King Argishti I at the western extreme of the Ararat plain. Erebuni was "designed as a great administrative and religious centre, a fully royal capital." By the late ancient Armenian Kingdom, new capital cities were established and Yerevan declined in importance. Under Iranian and Russian rule, it was the center of the Erivan Khanate from 1736 to 1828 and the Erivan Governorate from 1850 to 1917, respectively.
context_section_description: Yerevan also cooperates with:
   Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (2014)
   Athens, Greece (1993)
   Beijing, China (2009)
   Bucharest, Romania (2013)
   Delhi, India (2008)
   Île-de-France, France (2011)
   Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (2014)
   Lyon, France (1993)
   Kaliningrad, Russia (2009)
   Kiev, Ukraine (1995)
   Krasnodar, Russia (2014)
   Minsk, Belarus (2002)
   Moscow, Russia (1995)
   Paris, France (2011)
   Pesaro, Italy (2017)
   Podgorica, Montenegro (1974)
   Qazvin, Iran (2014)
   Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2007)
   Saint Petersburg, Russia (1997)
   Sofia, Bulgaria (2008)
   Stepanakert, Artsakh (2012)
   Tuscany, Italy (1996)
   Warsaw, Poland (2013)
caption: Place de France with the statue of Jules Bastien-Lepage by Auguste Rodin at the centre are among the symbols featuring the partnership between Yerevan and Paris
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