Artsvanist
Artsvanist is a village in the Martuni Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located to the south of Lake Sevan. In the gorge south of the village is the important early 10th century monastery of Vanevan and a large but broken medieval khachkar monument nearby.Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 3,070 residents
- Description: village in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Alichali”, “Nerkin Aluchalu”, and “Nizhniy Aluchalu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vanevan Monastery and Church of St. Gregory.
Vanevan Monastery
Monastery
Photo: Soghomon Matevosyan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vanevan Monastery is a monastery located along a gorge south of the village of Artsvanist, southeast of Lake Sevan in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tsovinar and Karchaghbyur.
Tsovinar
Village
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tsovinar is a village in the Martuni Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located to the south of Lake Sevan. Tsovinar is situated 3½ km west of Artsvanist.
Karchaghbyur
Village
Karchaghbyur is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik province of Armenia. Karchaghbyur is situated 6 km east of Artsvanist.
Vardenik
Village
Photo: Valen1988, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vardenik is a village in the Martuni Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, that sits along the Vardenis River. The cyclopean fort ruins of Kaftarli are located 3 km south of the village, with petroglyphs being present downhill along the bank of the river, among additional historic monuments. Vardenik is situated 7 km west of Artsvanist.
Artsvanist
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Martuni Municipality, Lake Sevan Region, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.15455° or 40° 9′ 16″ northLongitude
45.50811° or 45° 30′ 29″ eastPopulation
3,070Elevation
1,950 metres (6,398 feet)Open location code
8HG75G35+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1438386782OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616379Wikidata ID
Q2636140
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Artsvanist” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Arcvanist”
- Armenian: “Artsvanist”
- Armenian: “Արծվանիստ, Գեղարքունիքի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Արծվանիստ”
- Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Alçalı”
- Belarusian: “Арцваніст”
- Cebuano: “Artsvanist”
- Chechen: “Арцванист”
- Chinese: “Artsvanist”
- Dutch: “Artsvanist”
- French: “Artsvanist”
- Georgian: “არწვანისტი”
- German: “Arcvanist”
- German: “Arzwanist”
- Italian: “Artsvanist”
- Malay: “Artsvanist”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Artsvanist”
- Persian: “آرتسوانیست”
- Polish: “Arcwanist”
- Russian: “Арцванист”
- Scots: “Artsvanist”
- Spanish: “Artsvanist”
- Swedish: “Alatjalu Nerkin”
- Swedish: “Artsvanist”
- Turkish: “Artsvanist”
- Ukrainian: “Арцваніст”
- Uzbek: “Artsvanist”
- Vietnamese: “Artsvanist”
- Western Armenian: “Արծուանիստ”
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