page_title: Erebuni District
section_title: Aintiquity
hierarchical_section_title: Erebuni District / History / Aintiquity
caption_attribution_description: Հայերեն: Քաղաքատեղի` Էրեբունի (Արին Բերդ), մթա 8-3 դդ.English: Urartian fortress Erebuni, 8c. BC, Yerevan, ArmeniaРусский: Урартская крепость Эребуни 8-3 вв. днэ This is a photo of a monument in Armenia identified by the ID 1.5/19
context_page_description: Erebuni, is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is situated southeast of the city centre where Erebuni Fortress is located. The name of Yerevan itself is derived from ancient Erebuni.
  Erebuni is bordered by Shengavit District from the west, Kentron, Nork-Marash and Nor Nork districts from the north, Kotayk Province from the east, Nubarashen district and Kotayk Province from the south.
context_section_description: Archaeological evidences indicate that the Urartian military fortress of Erebuni (Armenian: Էրեբունի was founded in 782 BC by the orders of King Argishti I at the Arin-Berd hill within modern-day Erebuni dsitrict, to serve as a fort and citadel guarding against attacks from the north Caucasus.
  During the height of the Urartian power, irrigation canals and an artificial reservoirs were built in Erebuni and its surrounding territories. In 585 BC, the fortress of Teishebaini (Karmir Blur) located around 45 km north of Yerevan, was destroyed by an alliance of Medes and the Scythians.
caption: Erebuni Fortress
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