Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i
Mount Ararat and the Yerevan skyline
Genocide Memorial complex from air on a sunny day, September 2017
Matenadaran, Ereván, Armenia, 2016 10 03, DD 22
Mount Ararat, officially Mount Ağrı, also known as Masis, is a snow- capped and dormant compound volcano in easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Arara
Yerevan
…apparently Erebuny. Early Christian Armenian chroniclers connected the origin of the city's name to the legend of Noah's Ark. After the ark had landed on Mount Ararat and the flood waters had receded, Noah, while looking in the direction of Yerevan, is said to have exclaimed "Yerevats!" ("it appeared!" in Armenian…
Little Ararat (left) and Greater Ararat (right); View from Yerevan, Armenia
View from the Araratian plain near the city of Artashat, Armenia
Closeup of Greater Ararat