Crossword-Solution: ERIVAN 6 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

From the earliest period to the present hour, Armenia has been the theatre of perpetual war: the lands between Tauris and Erivan were dispeopled by the cruel policy of the Sophis; and myriads of Christian families were transplanted, to perish or to propagate in the distant provinces of Persia.

Since the beginning of the last century, the Armenians have obtained a large and lucrative share of the commerce of the East: in their return from Europe, the caravan usually halts in the neighborhood of Erivan, the altars are enriched with the fruits of their patient industry; and the faith of Eutyches is preached in their recent congregations of Barbary and Poland.

The _catholic_, or patriarch, of the Armenians resides in the monastery of Ekmiasin, three leagues from Erivan.

SOPHIA--MARAND--THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER--NATSCHIVAN--JOURNEY OF THE CARAVAN--A NIGHT'S IMPRISONMENT--CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNEY-- ERIVAN--THE RUSSIAN POST--THE TARTARS--ARRIVAL IN TIFLIS--SOJOURN THERE--CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNEY--KUTAIS--MARAND--TRIP ON THE RIBON--REDUTKALE.

Erivan {305} is situated on the river Zengui, and is the capital of Armenia; it contains about 17,000 inhabitants, and is built upon low hills, in a large plain, surrounded on all sides with mountains.