Byurakan
Sign in to saveByurakan () is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, located on the slope of Mount Aragats. The village is home to several historical sites including the 7th-century Artavazik Church, the 10th-century basilica of Saint Hovhannes and a huge 13th-century khachkar monument.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Byurakan
- Settlement.native_name
- Բյուրական
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Byurakan_village.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Byurakan as seen from the village of Tegher
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Armenia#Aragatsotn
- Settlement.mapsize
- 150px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Armenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Aragatsotn
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ashtarak
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Zarzand Babayan
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 21.27
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 4,345
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Բյուրական
- Country
- Armenia
- Located in
- Erivansky Uyezd
- Official language
- Armenian
- Population
- 799
- Area
- 21.27
- Elevation
- 1460
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Byurakan village.jpg
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- Commons category
- Byurakan
- located in/on physical feature
- Mount Aragats
- native label
- Բյուրական
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Byurakan Observatory
- Gallery
- References
Byurakan () is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, located on the slope of Mount Aragats. The village is home to several historical sites including the 7th-century Artavazik Church, the 10th-century basilica of Saint Hovhannes and a huge 13th-century khachkar monument.
It is also home to the Byurakan Observatory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Byurakan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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