Place:Ararat, Armenia

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NameArarat
Alt namesAM02source: FIPS Change Notice, no. 1 (1998) p 1
Araratsource: Wikipedia
Ararat regionsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Araratisource: Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 553
TypeProvince
Coordinates39.91667°N 44.83333°E
Located inArmenia
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Ararat
Arevshat
Artashat
Artaxata
Aygepat
Baghramyan
Dvin ( 300 - )
Dzhraovit
Masis
Sisavan
Vedi
Vernin Artashat
Zangakatun
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: GeoNames Geographical Database



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Ararat, is a province (marz) of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Artashat.

The province is named after the biblical Mount Ararat. It is bordered by Turkey from the west and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic from the south. It surrounds the Karki exclave of Nakhichevan which has been controlled by Armenia since its capture in May 1992 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Domestically, Ararat is bordered by Armavir Province from the northwest, Kotayk Province from the north, Gegharkunik Province from the east, Vayots Dzor Province from the southeast and the city of Yerevan from the north.

Two former capitals of Armenia are located in the modern-day Ararat Province, Artaxata and Dvin. It is also home to the Khor Virap monastery, significant as the place of Gregory the Illuminator's 13-year imprisonment and the closest point to Mount Ararat within Armenian borders.

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