Erivan
a strongly fortified city of Armenia, and the capital of the former Russian government of Transcaucasia, 3,000 feet above sea-level, and 170 miles S. W. of Tiflis. The province of the same name has an area of about 10,700 square miles, formerly bordering on ERLANGEN Persia and Asiatic Turkey. The population of the city, before the war, was about 33,000, and that of the province about 970,000, being about equally divided between Mohammedans and Christian Armenians. During the Russian campaigns against Asiatic Turkey, in the World War, Erivan was one of the bases of the Russian forces. In 1920 Erivan became the economic center of the new Armenian Republic, here being established the central wholesale supply depot of the co-operative societies which were exclusively supplying the people with food stuffs.