Noratus
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Noratus () is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near the town of Gavar. The village has a rich historical past, and is famous for the Noratus cemetery, the largest surviving cemetery in the world featuring khachkars.
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Vinony's link graph records 110 inbound references to Noratus, and connects out to Gegharkunik Province, Armenia and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Gegharkunik Province.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Noratus
- Settlement.native_name
- Նորատուս
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Noratus by Ohannes.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A view of Noratus
- 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
- Gavar
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Murad Harutyunyan
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 6,732
- Settlement.timezone
- AMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Նորատուս
- Country
- Armenia
- Located in
- Kamo District
- Official language
- Armenian
- Population
- 605
- Elevation
- 1925
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Noratus Village.JPG
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Noraduz
- Commons gallery
- Noraduz
- native label
- Նորատուս
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Gavar transmitter
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Noratus () is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near the town of Gavar. The village has a rich historical past, and is famous for the Noratus cemetery, the largest surviving cemetery in the world featuring khachkars.
== History == Khachkars in Noratus cemetery|thumb|left Noratus is first mentioned as a settlement in the Middle Ages, when it was a much larger settlement. The bronze-age megalithic fort near the village points to the notion that Noratus is one of the most ancient continuously inhabited settlements in Armenia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Noratus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations