Çarpanak Island

Çarpanak Island or Ktuts or Ktouts, is a small island in . It is now uninhabited, but formerly contained an Armenian monastery called Ktuts. The ruins of it can still be seen.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island in Lake Van, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Charpanak”, “Icericarpanak Adasi”, and “Ktuts”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ktuts Monastery.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an abandoned 15th century Armenian monastery on the small island of Ktuts in , Vaspurakan which fell into ruins after the Armenian genocide beginning in 1915.

Çarpanak Island

Latitude
38.60788° or 38° 36′ 28″ north
Longitude
43.08526° or 43° 5′ 7″ east
Elevation
1,661 metres (5,449 feet)
Open location code
8HC5J35P+54
Open­Street­Map ID
way 847261352
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
311727
Wiki­data ID
Q3122010
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Çarpanak Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة تشارباناك”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة جاربنك”
  • Armenian: “Կտուց կղզի”
  • Armenian: “Կտուց”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çarpanak adası”
  • Cebuano: “İçeriçarpanak Adası”
  • Chinese: “恰帕納克島”
  • Croatian: “Çarpanak”
  • French: “Çarpanak”
  • German: “Çarpanak Adası”
  • German: “Çarpanak Insel”
  • Kurdish: “Çixatan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Çarpanak Adası”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Çarpanakøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ktouts”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ktuts”
  • Persian: “جزیره چارپاناک”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Charpanaque”
  • Russian: “Ичери-Чарпанак”
  • Russian: “Ктуц”
  • Russian: “Чапанак”
  • Russian: “Чарпанак”
  • Spanish: “Isla Çarpanak”
  • Turkish: “Çarpanak Adası”
  • Turkish: “Çarpanak”

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