Kanakerr-Zeytun

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official_name =Kanaker-Zeytun
Քանաքեր-Զեյթուն
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subdivision_name = Armenia
subdivision_type1 = Marz (Province)
subdivision_name1 =Yerevan
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population_as_of = 2001
population_total = 78,676
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Kanaker-Zeytun (Armenian: _hy. Քանաքեր-Զեյթուն, also spelled Kanakerr-Zeytun or Qanaqer-Zeytun) is a district of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, located in the northeastern part of the city, an amalgam of Kanakerr and Nor Zeytun.

This hill town is small, with a population of 77,731 [*ArmenianCensus|82] and an area about 2,000 acres (8 km²). It consists mainly of one or two-storied houses, two ancient churches (the older on a hill in a cemetery, the other highly restored and in daily use). There is also nearby a medieval well. A nineteenth-century Russian church stands facing a Russian base on the road into Yerevan. The most famous people born in the area are Khachatur Abovian, Djivan Gasparyan, Ofelya Hambardzumyan and Zaqaria Qanaqertci.

Kanakerr played a key role in the Russian siege of Yerevan in 1827. (There was until recently a monument in French in the Armenian church to the infant daughter of the Russian commander).

Zeytun was founded between 1946-1948 by Armenian repatriates who arrived from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Greece.

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