Norshen
Norshen is a village in the Ani Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Norshen has an elevation of 1,456 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Shirak Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Norshen, Shirak”
- Historically known as: “Kharkov” and “Yenikey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ani and Cathedral of Ani.
Ani
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ani is an abandoned city in Eastern Anatolia, 44 km east of Kars and right on the border with Armenia. It was the chief city of Armenia in the 11th century, but dwindled thereafter, and was abandoned in the 13th century.
Cathedral of Ani
Church
The Cathedral of Ani is the largest standing building in Ani, the capital city of medieval Bagratid Armenia, located in present-day eastern Turkey, on the border with modern Armenia.
Tigran Honents Church
Church
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of St Gregory of Tigran Honents, or Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator is a medieval religious structure located in Ani, in Turkey's Kars province next to the closed border with Armenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ani and Haykadzor.
Ani
Village
Photo: Jaba1977, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ani is a village, which is situated 3 km northwest of Norshen.
Haykadzor
Village
Photo: Narek75, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Haykadzor is a village in the Ani Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia near the Armenia–Turkey border… Haykadzor is situated 6 km northeast of Norshen.
Aniavan
Village
Aniavan (Armenian: Անիավան is a village in the Ani Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population was 516 in 2010, up from 377 at the 2001 census. Aniavan is situated 6 km southeast of Norshen.
Norshen
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Ani Municipality, Shirak Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.50632° or 40° 30′ 23″ northLongitude
43.59606° or 43° 35′ 46″ eastElevation
1,456 metres (4,777 feet)Open location code
8HG5GH4W+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1194775847OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Norshen” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ենիկեյ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ենիքեյ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ենիքյոյ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Էնիքեյ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Էնիքյոյ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Խարկով” (historical)
- Armenian: “Նորշեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Norşen”
- Chechen: “Норшен”
- Chechen: “Харков”
- Persian: “نورشن، شیراک”
- Persian: “نورشن”
- Polish: “Norszen”
- Russian: “Еникей” (historical)
- Russian: “Норшен”
- Russian: “Харков” (historical)
- Russian: “Харьков”
- Spanish: “Norshen”
- Turkish: “Norshen”
- Turkish: “Nurşen (II)”
- Ukrainian: “Норшен”
- Ukrainian: “Харків”
- Uzbek: “Norshen”
- Vietnamese: “Norshen, Shirak”
- Vietnamese: “Norshen”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Norshen”. Photo: FHen, CC BY-SA 3.0.