Artashat (Armenian: Ô±Ö€Õ¿Õ¡Õ·Õ¡Õ¿; Hellenized as Artaxata) is a city on the Araks River in the Ararat valley. It has a population of 35,100http://www.armeniainfo.am/about/?section=population ArmeniaInfo. It is the provincial capital of the Ararat Province in Armenia.