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Yeghipatrush
Yeghipatrush ( hy, Եղիպատրուշ), is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. During the Soviet period, the town was renamed in honor of Askanaz Mravyan Askanaz Harutyuni Mravyan ( hy, Ասքանազ Հարությունի Մռավյան, – October 23, 1929) was a Soviet Armenian statesman and political activist. He was one of the early leaders of Soviet Armenia. Biography Askanaz Mravyan wa ..., Soviet Armenian Cultural Commissar. The town has a 10th- to 13th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin. Some 100 meters beyond the church is an early cemetery with one corner of an allegedly 5th-century basilica as well as a khachkar shrine. Gallery Image:Armenian Church in Yeghipatrush.JPG, S. Astvatsatsin Church Image:Yeghipatrush 05.jpg, Double-khachkar shrine Image:Yeghipatrush Church ruins3.JPG, 5th-century basilica ruins in cemetery References * * *Kiesling, ''Rediscovering Armenia'', p. 22, available online at thUS embassy t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeghipatrush Church
The Surb Astvatsatsin Church ( hy, Եղիպատրուշ Սուրբ Աստուածածին Եկեղեցի; meaning ''Holy Mother of God Church''); also Yeghipatrush Church ( hy, Եղիպատրուշ Եկեղեցի) is a church located in the village of Yeghipatrush in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It was constructed between the 10th and 13th centuries. Nearby is an Early-Medieval cemetery containing the ruins of a 5th-century basilica as well as a 13th-century double- khachkar shrine. Of primary interest is the 12th- to 13th-century roofless gavit, which is unique in Armenian architecture because of the inclusion of watchtowers at the plan's northeast and southeast corners. It has twelve columns in the interior. Design elements of the gavit's west portal were heavily influenced by Islamic architecture. It has a decorative archway mounted by an equilateral pointed arch, surrounded by a rectangular frame containing geometric patterns (''see also Neghutsi Vank and Orbelian' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aragatsotn Province
Aragatsotn ( hy, Արագածոտն, ) is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the western part of the country. The capital and largest city of the province is the town of Ashtarak. The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population was 132,925 in the 2011 census. Etymology Literally meaning "the foot of Aragats" (the highest mountain of Armenia), it is named after the Aragatsotn canton of the historic Ayrarat province of Ancient Armenia, ruled by the Amatuni noble family under the reign of the Arsacid Dynasty. Geography Aragatsotn Province occupies the northwestern part of Armenia and covers an area of 2,756 km2 (9.3% of the total area of Armenia). It has internal borders with Shirak Province from the north, Lori Province from the northeast, Kotayk Province from the east, Armavir Province from the south and the city of Yerevan from the southwest. The Akhurian River at the west separates Aragatsotn from the Kars Province of Turkey. Historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Armenia
A municipality in Armenia referred to as community ( hy, համայնք ''hamaynk'', plural: hy, համայնքներ ''hamaynkner''), is an administrative subdivision consisting of a settlement ( hy, բնակավայր ''bnakavayr'') or a group of settlements ( hy, բնակավայրեր ''bnakavayrer'') that enjoys local self-government. The settlements are classified as either towns ( hy, քաղաքներ ''kaghakner'', singular hy, քաղաք ''kaghak'') or villages ( hy, գյուղեր ''gyugher'', singular ( hy, գյուղ ''gyugh''). The administrative centre of a community could either be an urban settlement (town) or a rural settlement (village). Two-thirds of the population are now urbanized. As of 2017, 63.6% of Armenians live in urban areas as compared to 36.4% in rural. As of the end of 2017, Armenia has 503 municipal communities (including Yerevan) of which 46 are urban and 457 are rural. The capital, Yerevan, also has the status of a community. Each municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Oxford Reference Online'' also place Armenia in Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region; and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the Lachin corridor (under a Russian peacekeeping force) and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the capital, largest city and the financial center. Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. The first Armenian state of Urartu was established in 860 BC, and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC and in the year 301 became the first state in the world to adopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Armenia
Countries' first-level (top-level) administrative division Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...s. ''Please note:'' This category's subcategories contain articles on each subdivision of the country while each directly included article considers the subdivisions structure of the country. ''Further note:'' This category's subcategories are indexed according to country, but its directly included articles are not: they are indexed by type of subdivision (provinces, counties, etc). Articles with non-English subdivision terms in their titles either have their redirects indexed instead, or are indexed by the common English translation for said subdivision. This facilitates comparisons between similarly named subdivisions. {{CatAutoTOC 1st-level ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aparan Municipality
Aparan (Armenian: ), is a town and urban municipal community in Armenia, located in the Aragatsotn Province, about 50 kilometers northwest of the capital Yerevan. As of the 2011 census, the population of the town was 6,451. As per the 2016 official estimate, Aparan had a population of around 5,300. Etymology It is commonly believed that the name of Aparan is derived from the Armenian word of ''Aparank''; meaning a royal palace. However, throughout the history, the town was known with different names including ''Kasagh'', ''Paraznavert'', ''Abaran'' and ''Abaran Verin''. Later, it was known as ''Bash Aparan'' () until 1935, when the name was finally changed to Aparan. History Early history and Middle Ages The first reference to the town of Aparan was made by Ptolemy during the 2nd century. Ptolemy referred to the settlement as ''Casala''; the Hellenized version of the Armenian name of ''Kasagh''. It was the centre of ''Nig'' canton of the Ayrarat province of ancient Armenia. Kasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Askanaz Mravyan
Askanaz Harutyuni Mravyan ( hy, Ասքանազ Հարությունի Մռավյան, – October 23, 1929) was a Soviet Armenian statesman and political activist. He was one of the early leaders of Soviet Armenia. Biography Askanaz Mravyan was born on January 2, 1886, to an Armenian family in Elizavetpol (present-day Ganja, Azerbaijan). He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905 and worked as an activist of its Bolshevik wing in Yerevan, Tiflis, Baku and Saint Petersburg. He graduated from the faculty of pedagogy of the Saint Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute in 1915. From 1915 to 1917, he edited the Armenian-language newspapers ''Paykar'' ("Struggle") and ''Banvori kriv'' ("Worker's Battle"). In 1918 Mravyan became the secretary of the Caucasian regional committee of the Bolshevik party and the editor of the newspaper ''Kavkazskaya pravda'' ("Caucasian Pravda"). As a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, Mravyan was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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