Artsvanist
Sign in to saveArtsvanist () is a village in the Martuni Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located to the south of Lake Sevan. In the gorge south of the village is the important early 10th century monastery of Vanevan and a large but broken medieval khachkar monument nearby.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Artsvanist
- Settlement.native_name
- Արծվանիստ
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Vanevank Monastery3.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Vanevan Monastery
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Armenia#Gegharkunik
- Settlement.mapsize
- 150px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Armenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gegharkunik
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Martuni
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1829–1830
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 2,825
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Արծվանիստ
- Country
- Armenia
- Located in
- Martuni district
- Official language
- Armenian
- Population
- 2825
- Elevation
- 1941
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Vanevan Monastery Front.JPG
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- Commons category
- Artsvanist
- postal code
- 1404
- native label
- Արծվանիստ
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Encyclopedic overview
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Artsvanist () is a village in the Martuni Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located to the south of Lake Sevan. In the gorge south of the village is the important early 10th century monastery of Vanevan and a large but broken medieval khachkar monument nearby.
== Toponymy == The village was known as Nerkin Aluchalu and Alichali until 1968, rendered as Nizhniy Aluchalu in Russian.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Artsvanist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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