Karchevan ( hy, Կարճևան) is a village in the

Meghri Municipality Meghri Municipality, referred to as Meghri Community ( hy, Մեղրի Համայնք ''Meghri Hamaynk''), is an urban community and administrative subdivision of Syunik Province of Armenia, at the south of the country. Consisted of a group of sett ...

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 ...

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. The village is located in the southern part of the Syunik Province, a short distance from the

Aras River , az, Araz, fa, ارس, tr, Aras The Aras (also known as the Araks, Arax, Araxes, or Araz) is a river in the Caucasus. It rises in eastern Turkey and flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia, between Turkey and the Nakhchivan excl ...

- the main tributary of the Kura River, which forms the border with

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and the

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic ( az, Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası, ), is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The region covers Official portal of Nakhchivan Autonomous RepublicNakhchivan Autonomous Republic with a populat ...

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Demographics

Population

The

Statistical Committee of Armenia The Statistical Committee of Armenia (Armenian language, Armenian: Հայաստանի վիճակագրական կոմիտե) is the national statistical government agency, agency of Armenia. History The statistical institution started its main ...

reported its population was 292 in 2010, down from 353 at the 2001 census.

History

The village of Karchevan was first mentioned in the 10th century AD. According to the Geographical and Statistical Dictionary of the Russian Empire, published in 1865, 260 people lived in the village at that time. In addition, there was an old Armenian church, and nearby the village was the monastery of St. Stepanos. The settlement has the Surb Astvatsatsin Church (12th century) and the ruins of the monastery of St. Stepanos. In the vicinity of the village are the ruins of the Karchevan fortress as well as old cemeteries and tombs. During the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War ...

, Karchevan was part of the

Nakhichevan uezd The Nakhichevan uezd was a county (''uezd'') of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the governorate's Sharur-Daralayaz uezd to the north, the Zangezur uezd of the Elizavetpol Governorate to the ...

of the

Erivan Governorate The Erivan Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its centеr in Erivan (present-day Yerevan). Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometеrs, roughly corresponding to what is now most of central ...

Culture

The locals speak a special Karchevan dialect of the

Eastern Armenian Eastern Armenian ( ''arevelahayeren'') is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Western Armenian. The two standards form a pluricentric language. Eastern Armenian is spoken in Armenia, Artsakh, Russia, as ...

language, similar to that spoken in Meghri and formerly in Agulis.

Gallery

File:Կարճևանի Սբ. Աստվածածի եկեղեցի.jpg, Surb Astvatsatsin Church File:Լեզվաբան Էդուարդ Աղայանի տունը Կարճևանում.jpg, Linguist Eduard Aghayan's house in Karchevan File:ԵԱԶ հուշարձան Կարճևանում.jpg, World War II Memorial

References

Populated places in Syunik Province {{Syunik-geo-stub