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Cilicia Vessel to Arrive in Yerevan Today
16.09.2006 15:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Cilicia Armenian vessel, which is a copy of a
thirteenth-century commercial ship, will arrive in Yerevan September
16, reported Ayas club of sea research, which initiated the
round-the-world voyage of Cilicia. The vessel will be exhibited in the
central square of Yerevan during festivities on the 15th anniversary
of Armenia’s independence, marked on September 21. Next spring the
vessel will drop its anchor in Lake Sevan to be turned into a museum
later.

Having sailed along medieval commercial routes through the Black,
Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas, as well as the Atlantic, Cilicia
vessel reached Batumi port in Georgia in the beginning of September.

During its voyage Cilicia repeated for the first time within the past
800 years the route of Cilicia traders. Within 2 years the ship passed
15 thousand nautical miles and visited 63 ports in 26 countries of
Europe and the Mediterranean basin, becoming a symbol of peace and
good, to which Armenian people have always been committed to, reports
Novosti-Armenia.