(2002 pop. 1.3 million). Yerevan is the capital and the largest city of Armenia, as well as its largest cultural, scientific, and industrial center (producing electronics, chemicals, textiles, and food products). The site was fortified as early as the...

Yerevan (pronounced /ˌjɛrəˈvɑːn/, Armenian: Երևան or Երեւան (according to the spelling systems); sometimes written as Erevan; former names include Erebuni and Erivan) is the largest city and capital of Armenia. It is situated on the...

THE PROTESTS of Soviet Armenians constitute a great upheaval with the potential to shake the Kremlin to the core. Technically, the issue centers on a demand that an enclave heavy with Armenians be transferred from the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan to neighboring Armenia. But...

LINDY WASHBURN, Restaurant Reviewer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-26-1995 AT YEREVAN NIGHTS IN HAWTHORNE By LINDY WASHBURN, Restaurant Reviewer Date: 05-26-1995, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1...

The chatter these days in Yerevan's Anahit Deluxe beauty salon isn't only about hairstyles, celebrity gossip or the coming winter — it's also about whether the U.S. Congress will agree that the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was genocide."If it passes,...

The Armenian-controlled breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh was holding a presidential election Thursday amid a rumbling dispute with Azerbaijan over the mountainous enclave's unrecognized independence.It is the fourth presidential election in the impoverished territory inside Azerbaijan that has been controlled by Armenian and ethnic Armenian forces...