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Solak, Armenia
Solak () is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to .... Solak is the birthplace of musician Djivan Gasparyan. The ancestors of the villagers came from Moush and Alashkert. See also * Kotayk Province References External links *World Gazeteer: Armenia– World-Gazetteer.com * Populated places in Kotayk Province {{Kotayk-geo-stub ...
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Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the Capital city, capital, largest city and Economy of Armenia, financial center. The Armenian Highlands has been home to the Hayasa-Azzi, Shupria and Nairi. By at least 600 BC, an archaic form of Proto-Armenian language, Proto-Armenian, an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, had diffused into the Armenian Highlands.Robert Drews (2017). ''Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe''. Routledge. . p. 228: "The vernacular of the Great Kingdom of Biainili was quite certainly Armenian. The Armenian language was obviously the region's vernacular in the fifth century BC, when Persian commanders and Greek writers ...
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Kotayk Province
Kotayk (, ), is a provinces of Armenia, province (''Administrative divisions of Armenia, marz'') of Armenia. It is located at the central part of the country. Its capital is Hrazdan and the largest city is Abovyan. It is named after the Kotayk canton of the historic Ayrarat province of Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Ancient Armenia. Kotayk is bordered by Lori Province from the northwest, Tavush Province from the north, Gegharkunik Province from the north, Aragatsotn Province from the southwest, and Ararat Province from the southwest and the capital Yerevan from the west. Kotayk is the only province in Armenia that has no borders with foreign countries. The province is home to many ancient landmarks and tourist attractions in Armenia including the 1st-century Garni Temple, the medieval Bjni Fortress, 11th-century Kecharis Monastery and the 13th-century monastery of Geghard. Kotayk is also home to the popular winter sports resort and the spa-town of Tsaghkadzor and the mountain r ...
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Djivan Gasparyan
Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan; , ; 12 October 1928 – 6 July 2021) was an Armenian musician and composer. He played the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the "Master of the duduk". In 2006 he was nominated for Grammy Awards for the Best Traditional World Music Album. Biography Born in Solak, Armenia, to parents from Mush, Gasparyan started to play duduk when he was six. In 1948, he became a soloist of the Armenian Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra. He won four medals at UNESCO worldwide competitions (1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973 Gasparyan was awarded the honorary title ''People's Artist of Armenia''. In 2002, he received the WOMEX (''World Music Expo'') Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Honorary citizen of Yerevan. A professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he instructed and nurtured many performers to professional levels of performance in dudu ...
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Muş
Muş (; ; ) is a city in eastern Turkey. It is the seat of Muş Province and Muş District.İl Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
Its population is 120,699 (2022). The city is majority Kurds, Kurdish.


Etymology

Various explanations of the origin of Muş's name exist. Its name is sometimes associated with the Armenian language, Armenian word , meaning fog, explained by the fact that the town and the surrounding plain are frequently covered in fog in the mornings. The 17th-century explorer Evliya Çelebi relates a myth where a giant mouse created by Nemrud (Nimrod) destroys the city and its inhabitants, after which the city was named Muş ( means ...
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Eleşkirt
Eleşkirt () is a town of Ağrı Province in Turkey. It is the seat of Eleşkirt District.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
Its population is 10,191 (2021). Its name is a transference from Alashkert (), the valley's former administrative centre but now a village known as Toprakkale. It was known as ''Vagharshakert'' in medieval sources. At the time of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 approximately half of the population consisted of and the rest of