Kanaker
Kanaker was a village in Armenia to the north-east of the capital Yerevan. With the urban development of Yerevan in the 20th century, the village was gradually absorbed by the capital, thus becoming part of the Kanaker-Zeytun District.- Type: Locality
- Description: place in Yerevan, Armenia
- Also known as: “Kenaker”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God and Saint Hakob Church.
Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God
Church
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The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God of Kanaker, is an active Russian Orthodox church in the old area of Kanaker, Yerevan, Armenia. Main church of the Diocese of Yerevan and Armenia.
Saint Hakob Church
Church
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Surp Hakob Church is located in the Kanaker-Zeytun District within the city limits of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Its sister-church, Surp Astvatsatsin, is located upon a hilltop to the northwest within sight of the Church of S. Hakob.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanaker-Zeytun and Avan.
Kanaker-Zeytun
Suburb
Photo: Mosinyan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kanaker-Zeytun is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, located in the northeastern part of the city. As of the 2022 census, the population of the district is 73,834.
Avan
Suburb
Photo: Spetsnaz1991, CC BY 2.0.
Avan is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Originally an ancient village on a hill at the northeastern outskirts of Yerevan, Avan has been inhabited since pre-Christian times. Avan is situated 3 km east of Kanaker.
Kanakeravan
Village
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Kanakeravan, a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, 42 km southwest of the province's center, on the high right bank of the Hrazdan river, blocking KERG. Kanakeravan is situated 3 km north of Kanaker.
Kanaker
- Category: village
- Location: Kanaker-Zeytun, Yerevan, Central Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kanaker” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كناكر”
- Armenian: “K’anak’err”
- Armenian: “K’anak’erri”
- Armenian: “Քանաքեռ”
- Armenian: “Քանաքեռի”
- Azerbaijani: “Kanakir”
- Belarusian: “Канакер”
- Bulgarian: “Канакер”
- Catalan: “Kanaker”
- Chinese: “卡納克”
- Czech: “Kanaker”
- Dutch: “Kanaker”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كناكر”
- Esperanto: “Kanaker”
- French: “Kanaker”
- Georgian: “კანაკერი”
- German: “Kanaker”
- Hebrew: “קנאקר”
- Ossetian: “Канакер”
- Persian: “کاناکر”
- Russian: “Канакер”
- Slovenian: “Kanaker”
- Swedish: “Kanaker (Armenien)”
- Swedish: “Kanaker”
- Turkish: “Kanaker”
- Ukrainian: “Канакер”
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