Orgov
Orgov is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Orgov is home to the Orgov Radio-Optical Telescope and remains of a Bronze Age fort.
- Village with 534 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1,617 metres (5,305 feet)
- Description: village in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tegher Monastery and Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope.
Byurakan astrophysic observatory
The Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, or Byurakan… Byurakan astrophysic observatory is situated 2½ km southeast of Orgov.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Antarut and Tegher.
Antarut
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Byurakan
Photo: Serouj, Public domain.Orgov
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Latitude
40.35058° or 40° 21′ 2″ north
Longitude
44.25438° or 44° 15′ 16″ east
Open location code
8HG69723+6Q
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Orgov” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اورغوف”
- Armenian: “Orgov”
- Armenian: “Օրգով”
- Azerbaijani: “Orqov”
- Bavarian: “Orgow”
- Belarusian: “Аргоў”
- Chechen: “Оргов”
- Dutch: “Orgov”
- French: “Orgov”
- Georgian: “ორგოვი”
- German: “Ôrgov”
- German: “Orgow”
- Italian: “Orgov”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Orgov”
- Malay: “Orgov”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orgov”
- Persian: “اورگو”
- Persian: “اورگوو”
- Polish: “Orgow”
- Romanian: “Orgov, Aragațotn”
- Russian: “Оргов”
- Spanish: “Orgov”
- Turkish: “Orgov”
- Turkish: “Orkov”
- Ukrainian: “Оргов”
- Ukrainian: “Орґов”
- Uzbek: “Orgov”
- Vietnamese: “Orgov”
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