Lchashen
Sign in to saveLchashen () is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Lchashen
- Settlement.native_name
- Լճաշեն
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Red Monastery in Lchashen 100.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- A view of Lchashen and the Red Monastery (Karmir Vank)
- 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
- Sevan
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 4,969
- Settlement.timezone
- AMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.image_shield
- Coat of arms of Lchashen.png
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Lchashen () is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.
== History == The settlement dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. It has a Bronze Age cemetery, a Urartian Iron Age fortress, and a 13th-century church. It is an important archaeological site associated with the Lchashen-Metsamor culture (Etiuni).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lchashen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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