One theory regarding the origin of Yerevan's name is the city was named after the Armenian king, Yervand IV ( the Last ), the last leader of the Orontid Dynasty, and founder of the city of Yervandashat.

Mount Ararat – symbol of the Armenian nation and Yerevan – overlooking the city

In 1829, Armenian repatriates from Persia were resettled in the city and a new quarter was built.

Historically, the city is situated at the heart of the Armenian Highland, in Kotayk canton ( Kotayk gavar, not to be confused with the current Kotayk Province ) of Ayrarat province, within Armenia Major.

When he takes the 250-year-old Armenian capital, Corbulo gives the residents a few hours to collect their valuables and burns the city to the ground.

Alain Prost was born near the town of Saint-Chamond, close to the city of Saint-Etienne in the département of Loire, France, to André Prost and Marie-Rose Karatchian, born in France of Armenian descent.

In 1209, the brothers Mkhargrdzeli laid waste to Ardabil – according to the Georgian and Armenian annals – as a revenge for the local Muslim ruler's attack on Ani and his massacre of the city ’ s Christian population.

" The Armenian name of the city was Tizbon ( Տիզբոն ).

The 19th century Armenian travelling priest Byjiskian called the city by other, native names, including Hurşidabat and Ozinis.

It became an important center during the reign of the Armenian king, Tigranes II, who founded the city of Tigranakert in the 1st century BC.

During the early 1900s, the city of Van had eleven Armenian schools and ten Turkish.

Armenian churches within the walled city included Saint Tiramayr (), Saint Vardan (), Saint Poghos (), Saint Nshan (), Saint Sahak (), and Saint Tsiranavor (); in Aygestan (), Haykavank (), Norashen (), Arark (), Hankoysner, and other quarters each had a church.

While scholars in Turkey allege that the Armenians launched a rebellion in Van in 1915, most historians agree that the Armenian residents, hoping to avoid the slaughter being inflicted on the rural populations surrounding Van, defended themselves in the Armenian quarters of the city against the Turks.

It is said that the family name was derived from the city of Komne, near Philippopolis in Thrace, where they were landowners, and that they were of Armenian ancestry from Paphlagonia, which is possibly supported by the use of the name Manuel instead of Emmanouel.

It has been suggested that Crimea is named after the Cimmerians as well as the Armenian city of Gyumri.

Recent archeological studies have found that the first leather shoe, skirt, and wine-making facility were from prehistoric Armenian in the present city of Areni.

The City of Montebello has been affiliated with the City of Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabagh Republic, since 2005, when a much controversial move to facilitate the sister city relationship was made by the Armenian National Committee of the San Gabriel Valley and unanimously approved by the City Council.

The Armenian ruler of the city, Gabriel, then recognized Baldwin as overlord of the city.

Yousuf or Josuf ( his given Armenian name was Hovsep ) Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire ( present Turkey ).

* Odessa-a harbor city on the Black Sea with a mixture of different cultures, including Jewish, Armenian, German, Russian and Greek cultures along with the native Ukrainian culture.

The spiritual and administrative headquarters of the Armenian Church, the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, located in the city of Vagharshapat, Republic of Armenia, was established in 301 AD

In the 5th century the capital was transferred to Partav in Utik ', reported to have been built in the mid-5th century by the King Vache II of Albania, but according to M. L. Chaumont, it existed earlier as an Armenian city.

Zmiiv, a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, was named Gotvald after him during the years 1976 to 1990.

At first, the city was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR, as the city was a centre for Belarusian culture and politics for over a century.

* January 27 – The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.

It was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR from 1939 to 1941 as the capital of the Belastok Voblast After the Nazi attack on Soviet Union in 1941, the area was taken over by Germans and the city became the capital of Bezirk Białystok, a separate region in German occupied Poland, until 1944.

According to the agreements of the Yalta Conference, Lviv was integrated into the Ukrainian SSR, most of the Poles living in Lviv were transferred into Polish Recovered Territories and the city became the main centre of the western part of Soviet Ukraine, inhabited predominantly by Ukrainians with significant Russian minority.

Finally, in 1920, the Red Army took control of the city and united it with the Ukrainian SSR, which later became part of the USSR.

On April 12, 1944, the city was retaken by the Red Army and became again part of Moldavian SSR.

In accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact the city was transferred to the Belarusian SSR of the Soviet Union, and several thousand of the city's Polish inhabitants were deported to remote areas of the Soviet Union.

Since 1945 the city has been a centre of one of provinces of the Belarusian SSR, now of the independent Republic of Belarus.

Soviet troops entered the city in September 1939 and it was annexed into the Soviet Union via the Byelorussian SSR.

Following postwar border shifts, the Polish Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów, complete with library and Ossolineum was moved from Kresy to Wrocław with thousands of staff, employees and their belongings, because the city of Lwów fell within the Soviet Ukrainian SSR.

The city became an industrial centre in the Ukrainian SSR.

After World War II the city was annexed by the Soviet Union to the Ukrainian SSR and the majority of the surviving pre-war inhabitants of the city were expelled to the former German areas awarded to Poland after the Yalta Conference.

At various times, the city previously belonged to Lithuanian and Polish states, to Imperial Russia, and to the Byelorussian SSR.

On December 30, 1962, the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR issued a decree changing the status of Irpin to that of a " city of oblast subordinance ," thus being directly subordinate to the oblast authorities rather than the city administration housed within the city.

Nazarkhan was born into a family of musicians in 1978 in Andijan city, Uzbek SSR.

Teams from Gomel ( usually city or raion selection or railway-based team Lokomotiv, but not always ) played in Belarusian SSR championships since early 20's.

In 1946 Belorusian SSR league for one season becomes one of the zones of USSR 3rd level league, and Lokomotiv Gomel became the first city team to play in Soviet league.

Finally, on May 4, 1990, a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR gave the city back its original name.

Bekmambetov was born on June 25, 1961 in the city of Guryev, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union ( in what is now Kazakhstan ).