Noratus
Noratus is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near the town of Gavar. The village has a rich historical past, and is famous for the Noratus cemetery, the largest surviving cemetery in the world featuring khachkars.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 6,170 residents
- Description: village in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Noraduz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Noratus cemetery and Holy Mother of God Church.
Noratus cemetery
Photo: Eupator, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Noratus Cemetery, also spelled Noraduz, is a medieval cemetery with many early khachkars located in the village of Noratus in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near Gavar and Lake Sevan, 90 km north of Yerevan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Artsvakar and Gavarr.
Artsvakar
Village
Artsvakar, is former village and currently a neighbourhood within the town of Gavar, the capital of Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It is home to an Iron Age fortress, dating back to the 2nd millennium BC.
Gavarr
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gavar is a town in Armenia serving as the administrative centre of the Gavar Municipality and the Gegharkunik Province. It is situated among the high mountains of Gegham range to the west of Lake Sevan, with an average height of 1982 meters above sea level. Gavarr is situated 5 km southwest of Noratus.
Karmirgyugh
Village
Photo: Shaun Dunphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Karmirgyugh is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. Karmirgyugh is situated 6 km southwest of Noratus.
Noratus
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Gavar Municipality, Lake Sevan Region, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.37469° or 40° 22′ 29″ northLongitude
45.17811° or 45° 10′ 41″ eastPopulation
6,170Elevation
1,926 metres (6,319 feet)Open location code
8HG795FH+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2278907088OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616361Wikidata ID
Q1528182
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Noratus” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Նորադուզ”
- Armenian: “Նորատուս, Գեղարքունիքի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Նորատուս”
- Azerbaijani: “Noradüz”
- Cebuano: “Noratus”
- Chechen: “Норатус”
- Chinese: “Noradouz”
- Chinese: “诺拉图斯”
- Dutch: “Noraduz”
- French: “Noradouz”
- Georgian: “ნორატუსი”
- Greek: “Νορατούζ”
- Greek: “Νορατούς”
- Italian: “Noradouz”
- Italian: “Noratus”
- Japanese: “ノラトゥス”
- Malay: “Noratus”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Noradouz”
- Persian: “نوراتوس”
- Polish: “Noratus”
- Russian: “Норадуз”
- Russian: “Норатус”
- Scots: “Noratus”
- Spanish: “Noratus”
- Swedish: “Noratus”
- Turkish: “Noratus”
- Ukrainian: “Норатус”
- Uzbek: “Noratus”
- Vietnamese: “Noratus”
- Western Armenian: “Նորատուս”
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