Armavir (ancient)

 archaeological site, tell (mound), interesting place

The mound south west of Haykavan and south of modern Armavir is the site of the historical city of Armavir. Armavir was inhabited from the 5th-6th millennium BC. Various obsidian instruments, bronze objects and pottery have been found from that period. King Argišti I of Urartu built a fortress he named after himself, Argištihinili, at Armavir Blur to the northwest. After 331 BC when Armenia reasserted its independence under the Orontid Dynasty from the Achaemenid Empire, Armavir was chosen as the capital of Armenia. Slabs of clay have been found from the Achaemenid period written in the Elamite language concerning episodes of the Gilgamesh epic. Various inscriptions in Hellenistic Greek carved around the 3rd century BC, include poetry from Hesiod, lines from Euripides, a list of Macedonian months, and names of Orontid Kings.

Armavir was bounded orderly to Seleucids, Parthians, Kingdom of Armenia, Roman Empire, Sassanids and Byzantine Empire before Arabic conquest in 645.