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Yerevan is a religious city-state in Civilization VI.

Strategy[]

Yerevan can play a pivotal role in religious expansion. Being able to choose your Apostle promotions is gamechanging, allowing any player to avoid the randomly-given "useless" promotions such as Indulgence Vendor or Chaplain in favour of Proselytizer, Translator, and Debater. The difference between being on the receiving end and the delivery end of Apostle units with Debater is a game changer, making Yerevan a good reason not to spend Envoy Envoys frivolously on mediocre city states.

Civilopedia entry[]

There is evidence of human habitation near the capital of Armenia dating from prehistory. Worked stone tools have been taken from Yerevan cave, dated from tens of thousands of years ago. The Shengavit site in Yerevan was settled around about 3200 BCE, making it one of best-known walled Bronze Age archeological sites in the world. The city of Yerevan itself is almost modern by contrast, originally founded on the site of a fortification called “Erebuni” over 2,500 years ago.

Armenia was the first nation to adopt Christianity as its religion, early in the 4th century. Yerevan also became famous for its leather working (a leather shoe over 5,000 years old is on display in the History Museum of Armenia). Situated at the crossroads of various empires of Asia and the Near East, it has been ruled by Medes, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Persians, the Ottomans, and Russians. The rise and fall of these cultures is still reflected in the surviving architecture and culture of the city.

Ancient churches dot Yerevan. The tiny Katoghike Church contrasts with the magnificent Cathedral of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, the largest Armenian Apostolic Church in the world. Some, however, have been lost, such as the 5th century Saint Paul and Peter Church (though fragments remain in history museums.) The Blue Mosque was closed for a few decades and used as the Museum of the City of Yerevan, but has since been restored and used as a house of worship again.

Yerevan is also home to Yerevan Chess House. Chess and its predecessors have been played in Armenia since at least the 9th century, and possibly as early as the 6th, and today Armenians continue to represent their country at the highest levels of competition.

Trivia[]

  • Yerevan's city-state symbol is the Arevakhach, the Armenian sign of Eternity.

See also[]

Civilization VI City-States [edit]
Cultural Antananarivo1Ayutthaya1Caguana1KumasiMohenjo-DaroNan MadolRapa Nui GS-OnlyVilnius
Industrial Auckland1BrusselsBuenos AiresCardiff GS-OnlyHong KongJohannesburg1Mexico City GS-OnlySingapore1Toronto
Militaristic Akkad GS-OnlyCarthageGranada1KabulLahore1Ngazargamu GS-OnlyPreslavVallettaWolin1
Religious Armagh1Chinguetti1JerusalemKandyLa VentaNazca GS-OnlyVatican City1Yerevan
Scientific Anshan1Babylon R&F-OnlyBologna GS-OnlyFez GS-OnlyGenevaHattusaMitla1Nalanda1Palenque1SeoulStockholmTaruga1
Trade AmsterdamAntioch R&F-OnlyBandar Brunei1Cahokia GS-OnlyHunza1JakartaLisbonMogadishu1Muscat1Samarkand1Venice1Zanzibar
1 Requires DLC

R&F-Only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.
GS-Only Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.

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