Erivan (Yerevan) forgotten heritage of Azerbaijan.

Irevan was founded in the beginning of the 16th century as a stronghold of the Safavid (Turkic-Azerbaijani) empire on the border with the Ottoman Empire. According to the memoirs of the famous Turkic traveler Ovlie Chelebi, Shah Ismail I Sefevi in ​​1510 ordered the construction of a fortress on the Zengi River to stop the advancement of the Ottomans to the east. The construction was entrusted to the vizier Revan-gulu khan. Hence the name of the fortress - Revan-kala, which eventually transformed into Irevan. Gradually the city expanded, and in its architecture the traditions of the medieval Azerbaijani town-planning were observed. Academician Bartold in his works confirmed the fact of Revan-gul Khan's involvement in the construction of the fortress city. Veziriu liked the countryside, and he said: "There will be a city here." After seven years, the fortress of 7 hectares and 850 m high was ready. The three gates were called, respectively, the Tabriz Gate, the Shirvan Gate and the Bridge Gate. In the fortress there were 4 mehalle (residential quarters): Gala (Fortress), Sheher (City), Tepebyšy (Hilltop) and Demirbulag (Strong Spring). Four beautiful mosques were built in Shekher, making up the main silhouette of the city: "Novruzali Khan", "Huseynali Khan, or the Blue Mosque", "Khoja Safarbek", "Mahammad Sartibhan".

Then, during the weakening of the Safavid dynasty, four emigre rabbis were divided into more than 20 independent Azerbaijani khanates, one of which was the Erivan khanate.

In 1655 a French traveler Jean Baptiste Tavernie visited Irevan, and ten years later Jean Chardin, who described him as an Azerbaijani city. Travelers testified that there were 800 houses in the Erivan Fortress, only Muslims lived in them, described two mosques in the fortress, marble pools with fountains, gardens, a mirror hall of the Sardar palace, the way of life and customs of Azerbaijanis. These facts are valuable in that they preserved reliable information about the city before the devastating earthquake of 1679. Ruler Khan Khan with the help of other Azerbaijani khans quickly restored the former beauty of the city and built a more powerful fortress.

There is another weighty argument about the belonging of modern Yerevan to Azerbaijan. It was preserved in a letter dated May 29, 1918 from the first head of the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), Fatali Khan Khoy, Minister of Foreign Affairs M.Hajinsky: "We decided with the Armenians all the controversial issues, they will accept the ultimatum and end the war. We lost to them Irevan ".

The fact is that on May 28, 1918 Armenians announced the creation of an independent state, having neither its territory nor its political center. May 29, 1918, the newly declared Azerbaijan Democratic Republic ceded to the Armenians the ancient Azerbaijani city of Irevan with its adjacent territory with an area of ​​approximately 9.5 thousand square meters. km. RATING OF Irevan to Armenians was a kind gesture of the good will of the leadership of the ADR for the cessation of the war, which the Dashnaks announced to Azerbaijan and Georgia immediately after coming to power in the Armenian Republic.

 The age of Yerevan - 500 years - refutes the fabrications of Armenians, who unreasonably proclaimed 782 BC. e. year of the city's formation. Armenians needed the rejuvenation of Yerevan for several reasons. Firstly, they were not bothered by the fact that in 1958 Georgia celebrated the 1500th anniversary of Tiflis. Secondly, it was necessary to find its own armenized base for the etymology of the word Erivan, or Irevan. Armenians decided for political purposes to use the find of Soviet archaeologists.