YEREVAN CHRONOLOGY
1826-1828
During the 2nd Russian-Persian war of 1826-1828, in October 1827, General Paskevich captured the Erivan fortress. On February 10, 1828 an agreement was signed in the Iranian village of Turkmenchay, according to which Persia ceded the Erivan and Nakhichevan khanates to Russia Empire.
Erivan became the administrative center of the Armenian Province.
Persia also pledged to pay 20 million rubles in silver indemnity. For this, by the personal Imperial decree, General of Infantry Ivan Paskevich was elevated, with his descendants, to the dignity of the Count of the Russian Empire, named Count Paskevich-Erivansky, and received from the contribution a million rubles in bank notes.
Infantry General I. Paskevich and Prince Abbas-Mirza at the signing of a peace treaty in Turkmanchay.
Portrait of Ivan Fedorovich Paskevich by George Dawe. Military gallery of the Winter Palace.
Russian-Persian war. 1826-1828
Russian-Persian war. 1826-1828
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2ND-1ST MILLENNIA BC
Archeologists found Aghvesaberd (Fox Castle) cyclopean masonry dates back to the 2nd-1st millennia BC. Aghvesaberd is situated in Nor Nork 1st massive, not far from the Yerevan Zoo, in the Avan Gorge.
782 BC
In the southeastern part of the modern capital, King Argishti I founded the fortress town of Erebuni, the capital city of the Van Kingdom (Urartu), "to show the power of the country and to frighten enemies".
