Bagratashen ( hy, Բագրատաշեն) is a village in the

Tavush Province Tavush ( hy, Տավուշ, ) is a province of Armenia located at the northeast of Armenia, bordered by Georgia from the north and Azerbaijan from the east. Internally, Tavush borders the Gegharkunik Province from the south, Kotayk Province from ...

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. The village is located near the

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to Georgia, with the Georgian village of

Sadakhlo Sadakhlo (Georgian: სადახლო, az, Sadaxlı) is a village in Georgia located in the southern part of country in the administrative territory of Marneuli Municipality (Kvemo Kartli Region) at the border with Armenia. The village is ab ...

being located on the other side of the border.

Etymology

The village was named in honor of Bagrat Vardanian (1894-1971), who received the

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

title in the

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References

External links

* Populated places in Tavush Province {{Tavush-geo-stub