Nerkin Giratagh
Nerkin Giratagh is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province of Armenia. Nerkin Giratagh has an elevation of 1,440 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: former village in Syunik, Armenia
- Also known as: “Nerkin Giratakh” and “NiZhniy Giratag”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baghaberd.
Baghaberd
Photo: Soghomon Matevosyan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baghaberd is a 4th to 12th century Armenian fortress located along a ridge overlooking the Voghji River, 14 kilometres northwest of the city of Kapan in the Syunik Province of Armenia. Baghaberd is at an elevation of 1,438 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Andokavan and Verin Giratagh.
Andokavan
Village
Photo: Soghomon Matevosyan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Andokavan is a village in the Kajaran Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. The 4th-century Baghaberd fortress is located close to Andokavan.
Verin Giratagh
Village
Verin Giratagh is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province of Armenia.
Babikavan
Village
Babikavan is a village in the Kajaran Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. Babikavan is situated 2½ km southwest of Nerkin Giratagh.
Nerkin Giratagh
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kajaran Municipality, Syunik Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
39.22183° or 39° 13′ 19″ northLongitude
46.27118° or 46° 16′ 16″ eastElevation
1,440 metres (4,724 feet)Open location code
8HF867CC+PFOpenStreetMap ID
way 1148693450OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Nerkin Giratagh” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Nerk’in Girat’agh”
- Armenian: “Nerqin Giratax”
- Armenian: “Ներքին Գիրաթաղ”
- Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Girətağ”
- Chechen: “Нерки Гиратах”
- Chechen: “Неркин Гиратах”
- Persian: “نرکین گیراتاغ”
- Russian: “Неркин Гиратах”
- Scots: “Nerqin Giratagh”
- Swedish: “Nerkin Giratagh”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nerkin Giratagh”. Photo: Violettarmenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.