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is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the

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It is renamed in 1949 in honor of Georgi Dimitrov − Comintern and

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n Communist leader and prime minister of

. The village is inhabited mainly by

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and Assyrians.

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World Gazetteer: Armenia
– World-Gazetteer.com
Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census
{{AraratAM-geo-stub Populated places in Ararat Province Assyrian settlements Assyrians in Armenia Georgi Dimitrov