Oshakan
Oshakan is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 3 kilometers southwest from Ashtarak. It is well known to historians and pilgrims of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the site of the grave of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet.Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Mesrop Mashtots church and Oshakan bridge.
Saint Mesrop Mashtots church
Church
Saint Mesrop Mashtots Church is an Armenian Apostolic church in Oshakan that contains the grave of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Voskevaz and Sasunik.
Voskevaz
Village
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Voskevaz is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Not far from the center of the village is the church of Surp Hovhannes, built between the 7th and 12th centuries. The village is home to the Hayasy brewery.
Sasunik
Village
Photo: Ahaik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sasunik is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It was founded as a collective farm in 1955, and villagers were resettled from the old village of Sasunik in 1960. Sasunik is situated 3 km southeast of Oshakan.
Karin
Village
Karin, is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Karin is situated 3½ km east of Oshakan.
Oshakan
- Type: Village with 6,130 residents
- Description: village in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia
- Categories: village in Armenia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Ashtarak Municipality, Aragatsotn Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.26389° or 40° 15′ 50″ northLongitude
44.31663° or 44° 18′ 60″ eastPopulation
6,130Elevation
1,051 metres (3,448 feet)Open location code
8HG67878+HMOpenStreetMap ID
way 937281220OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Oshakan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Osjakan”
- Arabic: “أوشاكان”
- Armenian: “Oshakan”
- Armenian: “Հուշական”
- Armenian: “Ուշագան”
- Armenian: “Ուշական”
- Armenian: “Օշագան”
- Armenian: “Օշական, Արագածոտնի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Օշական”
- Azerbaijani: “Oşakan”
- Belarusian: “Ашакан”
- Catalan: “Oixakan”
- Catalan: “Osakan”
- Cebuano: “Oshakan”
- Chechen: “Ошакан”
- Chinese: “Ochakan”
- Czech: “Óšakan”
- Dutch: “Oshakan”
- Esperanto: “Oŝakan”
- French: “Ochakan”
- French: “Oshakan”
- Georgian: “ოშაკანი”
- German: “Oschakan”
- Hungarian: “Oshakan”
- Indonesian: “Oshakan”
- Italian: “Oshakan”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Oshakan”
- Korean: “오샤칸”
- Malay: “Oshakan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ochakan”
- Persian: “اوشاکان”
- Polish: “Oszakan”
- Portuguese: “Oxacã”
- Russian: “Ошаган”
- Russian: “Ошакан”
- Spanish: “Oshakan”
- Swedish: “Osjakan”
- Turkish: “Oşakan”
- Turkish: “Oshakan”
- Ukrainian: “Ошакан”
- Uzbek: “Oshakan”
- Vietnamese: “Oshakan”
- Western Armenian: “Օշական Գիւղ”
- Western Armenian: “Օշական”
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