Harzhis ( hy, Հարժիս) is a village in the Tatev Municipality of the

Syunik Province Syunik ( hy, Սյունիք, ) is the southernmost province of Armenia. It is bordered by the Vayots Dzor Province to the north, Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic exclave to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran to the south. It ...

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 ' ...

, 15 km southwest of

Goris Goris ( hy, Գորիս) is a town and the centre of the urban community of Goris, in Syunik Province at the south of Armenia. Located in the valley of the Goris (or Vararak) River, it is 254 km from the Armenian capital Yerevan and 67 ...

, on the left side of the

Vorotan River The Vorotan (), or Bargushad () or Bazarchay ( az, Bazarçay), is a river in Transcaucasia that is the largest right tributary of the Hakari river. The river originates in the mountains of Azerbaijan's Kalbajar District and flows into Armenia's ...

, on the plateau. The distance from Kapan - the center of the province is about 79 km. The height above sea level is about 1700-1730 m. Until 1968, the village was called Yaiji. With that name the settlement was included in the

Zangezur uezd The Zangezur uezd was a county (''uezd'') of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire with its administrative center in Gerusy (present-day Goris) from 1868 until its formal abolition and partition between the Soviet republics of Armen ...

within the

Elizavetpol Governorate The Elizavetpol Governorate, also known after 1918 as the Ganja Governorate, was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yelisavetpol (present-day Ganja). The area of the governorate st ...

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. During the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

years, Harzhis was a part of Goris region of the Armenian SSR. Since 1995, it has been part of the Syunik province of RA, since 2015 the settlement is a part of the enlarged Tatev Municipality.

Demographics

Population

According to the official census in 2011, the population of the village is 879, down from 1,014 in 2010, up from 831 at the 2001 census.

Gallery

Հին Հարժիս գյուղատեղի 01.jpg, Scenery ԵԱԶ հուշարձան Հարժիսում.jpg, WWII Monument Harzhis, Kotrats caravanserai (3).jpg, Kotrats caravanserai Խաչքար Սբ. Մինաս եկեղեցում.jpg, Khatchkar from 1606 in Harzhis Հին Հարժիս գյուղատեղի 17.jpg, Hin Harzhis Harzhis, Kotrats caravanserai (1).jpg, Kotrats caravanserai Ալան Թագավոր 20.jpg, 13th-century Alan Tagavor church Հին Հարժիս գյուղատեղի 26.jpg, Hin Harzhis

References

External links

Harzhis village: the symbol of pre-Christian past
{{portal bar, Geography Populated places in Syunik Province