Place:Echmiadzin, Armavir, Armenia

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NameEchmiadzin
Alt namesEjmiadzinsource: Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 553
Ejmiatsinsource: Wikipedia
Etschmiadzinsource: BHA, Authority file (2003-)
Ečmiadzinsource: Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1973-1982); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Ečmjadzinsource: Classical Armenian Culture (1982); Congresso Archeologia Cristiana (1982) Passuello, 693; USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Eğmiadzinsource: BHA, Authority file (2003-)
Vagarshapatsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Vagharshapatsource: Wikipedia
Vardkesavansource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 264
Yejmiadzinsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates40.167°N 44.3°E
Located inArmavir, Armenia
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Vagharshapat is the 4th-largest city in Armenia and the most populous municipal community of Armavir Province, located about west of the capital Yerevan, and north of the closed Turkish-Armenian border. It is commonly known as Ejmiatsin (also spelled Echmiadzin or Etchmiadzin,), which was its official name between 1945 and 1995. It is still commonly used colloquially and in official bureaucracy.

The city is best known as the location of Etchmiadzin Cathedral and Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the center of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is thus unofficially known in Western sources as a "holy city" and in Armenia as the country's "spiritual capital". It was one of the major cities and a capital of ancient Greater Armenia. Reduced to a small town by the early 20th century, it experienced large expansion during the Soviet period becoming, effectively, a suburb of Yerevan. Its population stands just over 37,000 based on 2016 estimates.

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