Lori Berd
Lori Berd is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia, just east of Stepanavan. The medieval fortress "Lori Berd" is located near the village, situated on a peninsula along the deep gorge cut by the Dzoraget and Tashir rivers.Photo: Taron Saharyan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 400 residents
- Description: village in Lori Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Berd”, “Loru berd”, and “Nor berd”
- Historically known as: “Miskhana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lori fortress and Stepan Shaumian’s Museum.
Lori fortress
Castle
Photo: Камалян001, CC0.
Lori Fortress is an 11th-century Armenian fortress located near the Lori Berd village in Lori Province, Armenia. The fortress was built by David Anhoghin to become the capital of Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget in 1065.
Stepan Shaumian’s Museum
Museum
Photo: Griqor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stepan Shaumian’s Museum is situated 2½ km west of Lori Berd.
Arjasar
Peak
Photo: Beko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arjasar is a peak, which is situated 3½ km south of Lori Berd.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stepanavan and Amrakits.
Stepanavan
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stepanavan is a city in Northern Armenia. It's famous mainly because of the ruins of the walled city of Lori located nearby. There is also a rather big museum of Stepan Shahumyan in town and nice Dendropark 12 km south of town.
Amrakits
Village
Bovadzor
Village
Photo: Nare Atoyan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bovadzor is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. Bovadzor is situated 2½ km north of Lori Berd.
Lori Berd
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Lori Berd Municipality, Lori, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.01287° or 41° 0′ 46″ northLongitude
44.41343° or 44° 24′ 48″ eastPopulation
400Elevation
1,384 metres (4,541 feet)Open location code
8HH62C77+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 2629461594OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616468Wikidata ID
Q2222849
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Lori Berd” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوري بيرد (أرمينيا)”
- Arabic: “لوري بيرد”
- Armenian: “Բերդ”
- Armenian: “Լոռի Բերդ”
- Armenian: “Լոռու բերդ”
- Armenian: “Միսխանա” (historical)
- Armenian: “Նոր բերդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Loru Berd”
- Chechen: “Лори Берд”
- Chinese: “Lorri Berd”
- Chinese: “洛里贝尔德”
- Dutch: “Lori Berd”
- French: “Lorri Berd”
- Georgian: “ლორე-ბერდი”
- German: “Lori Berd”
- Greek: “Λορί Μπερντ”
- Italian: “Lori Berd”
- Malay: “Lori Berd”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lorri Berd”
- Persian: “لوری برد، لوری”
- Persian: “لوری برد”
- Polish: “Lori Berd”
- Polish: “Lorri Berd”
- Russian: “Берд”
- Russian: “Лори Берд”
- Russian: “Лори-Берд”
- Russian: “Лору берд”
- Russian: “Мисхана” (historical)
- Russian: “Нор берд”
- Spanish: “Lori Berd”
- Swedish: “Lori Berd”
- Turkish: “Lori Berd”
- Uzbek: “Lori berd”
- Vietnamese: “Lori Berd”
- Western Armenian: “Լոռի բերդ”
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