Voghji
Voghji is a village in the Amasia Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. In 1988-1989, Azerbaijanis of the village moved to Azerbaijan, leading to Armenians from the Ninotsminda region of Georgia, the Spitak earthquake zone, and Azerbaijan to settle in the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Armenak.margarayn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 378 residents
- Description: village in Shirak, Armenia
- Also known as: “Voghji, Shirak”
- Historically known as: “Oghchoghli” and “Okhchoglu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marmashen Monastery.
Marmashen Monastery
Church
Marmashen Monastery is a 10th-century Armenian monastic complex consisting of five churches near the village of Marmashen in the Shirak Province of Armenia. Marmashen Monastery is situated 2½ km northeast of Voghji.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haykavan and Marmashen.
Haykavan
Village
Haykavan is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Haykavan is situated 2½ km southeast of Voghji.
Marmashen
Village
Photo: Armenak Margarian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Marmashen is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Marmashen is situated 4 km northeast of Voghji.
Vahramaberd
Village
Photo: Arman musikyan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vahramaberd is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Vahramaberd is situated 4½ km northeast of Voghji.
Voghji
- Category: locality
- Location: Amasia Municipality, Shirak Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.82258° or 40° 49′ 21″ northLongitude
43.73709° or 43° 44′ 14″ eastPopulation
378Elevation
1,619 metres (5,312 feet)Open location code
8HG5RPFP+2ROpenStreetMap ID
node 1444897961OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616078Wikidata ID
Q2664908
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Voghji” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Oghji”
- Armenian: “Oxji”
- Armenian: “Voxji”
- Armenian: “Ոխչի”
- Armenian: “Ողջի, Շիրակի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Ողջի”
- Armenian: “Օխչի”
- Armenian: “Օղչօղլի” (historical)
- Armenian: “Օղջ”
- Armenian: “Օճագլր” (historical)
- Azerbaijani: “Oxçuoğlu”
- Bulgarian: “Вохчи”
- Chechen: “Вохчи”
- Chinese: “Voghji”
- Dutch: “Voghji”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤوغچى”
- French: “Voghji”
- Georgian: “ვოღჯი”
- Greek: “Βογτζί”
- Italian: “Voghchi”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Voghji”
- Malay: “Voghji, Shirak”
- Malay: “Voghji”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Voghji”
- Persian: “ووغجی”
- Persian: “ووقجی”
- Polish: “Wochdżi”
- Russian: “Вохджи”
- Russian: “Вохчи”
- Russian: “Охче-оглы”
- Russian: “Охчи-оглы” (historical)
- Russian: “Охчогли” (historical)
- Russian: “Охчуоглу”
- Russian: “Охчуоглы” (historical)
- Scots: “Voghji, Shirak”
- Scots: “Voghji”
- Spanish: “Voghji”
- Turkish: “Ohçuoğlu”
- Turkish: “Voğci”
- Turkish: “Voghji”
- Uzbek: “Voghji”
- Vietnamese: “Voghji”
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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 “Voghji”. Photo: Armenak.margarayn, CC BY-SA 3.0.