Armenian Diaspora

Founded in 176 BC by King Artashes I on a double bend of the Araks river, Artashat served as the political and commercial capital of Greater Armenia for over 400 years. Plutarch records that the Carthaginian general Hannibal, then exiled at the Armenian court, helped lay out the city plan — making Artashat a rare westward extension of Punic urban design into Asia Minor.

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