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==History==
[[File:The City of Dvin.gif|thumb|left|Map of Dvin]]
The ancient city of Dvin was built by [[Khosrov III Kotak]] in 335 on a site of an ancient settlement and fortress from the 3rd millennium BC. Since then, the city had been used as the primary residence of the Armenian Kings of the [[Arsacid dynasty of Armenia|Arsacid dynasty]]. Dvin boasted a population of about 100,000 citizens in various professions, including arts and crafts, trade, fishing, etc.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kirakosyan |first=Jon |url=https://www.google.am/books/edition/The_Armenian_Genocide/m9JtAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Dvin+had+a+population+of+about+100,000+citizens&dq=Dvin+had+a+population+of+about+100,000+citizens&printsec=frontcover |title=The Armenian Genocide: The Young Turks Before the Judgment of History |date=1992 |publisher=Sphinx Press |isbn=978-0-943071-14-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sorkhabi |first=Rasoul |url=https://www.google.am/books/edition/Tectonic_Evolution_Collision_and_Seismic/IQlQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Dvin+had+a+population+of+about+100,000+citizens&pg=PA450&printsec=frontcover |title=Tectonic Evolution, Collision, and Seismicity of Southwest Asia: In Honor of Manuel Berberian's Forty-Five Years of Research Contributions |date=2017-12-21 |publisher=Geological Society of America |isbn=978-0-8137-2525-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cartwright |first=Mark |title=Ancient Dvin |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Dvin/ |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=World History Encyclopedia |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Karakhanyan |first1=Arkadi |last2=Arakelyan |first2=A. |last3=Avagyan |first3=A. |last4=Sadoyan |first4=T. |editor1-last=Sorkhabi |editor1-first=Rasoul |title=Tectonic Evolution, Collision, and Seismicity of Southwest Asia: In Honor of Manuel Berberian's Forty-Five Years of Research Contributions |date=2017 |publisher=[[Geological Society of America]] |isbn=978-0-8137-2525-3|doi=10.1130/2016.2525(14) |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=IQlQDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22dvin%22+%22population%22&pg=PA450 450] |chapter=Aspects of the seismotectonics of Armenia: New data and reanalysis |quote=According to Chandler (1987), the population of Dvin was 45,000 in 361 CE, while in 622 CE, before the conquest by the Arabs, it was estimated at 47,000. By the time Dvin was flourishing (the eight-ninth centuries), its population was on the order of 100,000 people.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hakobyan |first1=Nyura |title=Դվին [Dvin] |date=8 May 2019 |url=https://iae.am/hy/Dvin#/0 |publisher=Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, [[National Academy of Sciences of Armenia]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218170423/https://iae.am/hy/Dvin#/0 |archive-date=18 February 2024 |language=hy |quote=Ամենածաղկուն շրջանում բնակչությունը կազմել է 100.000-150.000:}}</ref>
After the fall of the [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenian Kingdom]] in 428, Dvin became the residence of [[Sassanid Empire|Sassanid]] appointed ''[[marzpan]]s'' (governors), Byzantine ''[[kouropalates]]'' and later [[Umayyad]]- and [[Abbasid]]-appointed ''ostikans'' (governors). Under Arsacid rule, Dvin prospered as one of the most populous and wealthiest cities east of [[Constantinople]]. Its prosperity continued even after the [[Peace of Acilisene|partition of Armenia]] between Romans and Sasanids, when it became the provincial capital of [[Persian Armenia]],{{sfn|Canepa|2009|p=24}} and eventually it became a target during the height of the [[Early Muslim conquests]]. The palace at Dvin contained a Zoroastrian fire-temple.{{sfn|Russell|1987|p=488}} According to [[Sebeos]] and Catholicos [[John V the Historian]], Dvin was captured by the [[Arabs]] in 640 during the reign of [[Constans II]] and Catholicos Ezra. During the [[Arab conquest of Armenia]], Dvin was captured and pillaged in 640, in the first raids. On January 6, 642 the Arabs stormed and took the city, with many deaths.{{sfn|Walker|1990|p=28}} Dvin became the center of the Muslim province of [[Arminiya]], the Arabs called the city Dabil.
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