Dvin
Dvin is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is located near the ruins of the ancient city of Dvin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,890 residents
- Description: village in Ararat Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Dvin Armyanskiy”, “Dvin, Armenia”, “Nerkin Dvin”, and “Nizhniy Dvin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dvin and Tiknuni castle.
Dvin
Ruins
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Dvin was a large commercial city and the capital of early medieval Armenia. It was situated north of the previous ancient capital of Armenia, the city of Artaxata, along the banks of the Metsamor River, 35 km to the south of modern Yerevan.
Tiknuni castle
Ruins
Photo: Albero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tiknuni castle is a ruins, which is situated 2½ km north of Dvin.
Surb Gevorg Church
Church
Photo: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Surb Gevorg Church is situated 3½ km west of Dvin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Verin Dvin and Hnaberd.
Verin Dvin
Village
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Verin Dvin is a village in the Verin Dvin Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia, located 30 kilometers south of Yerevan. The largest Assyrian community in Armenia is in Verin Dvin, where around 2,000 out of the 2,700 residents in the village are ethnic Assyrians.
Hnaberd
Village
Hnaberd is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.
Norashen
Village
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Norashen is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is located adjacent to the ruins of the ancient city of Dvin.
Dvin
- Categories: village in Armenia, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Artashat Municipality, Ararat Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.01983° or 40° 1′ 11″ northLongitude
44.58331° or 44° 34′ 60″ eastPopulation
2,890Elevation
928 metres (3,045 feet)Open location code
8HG62H9M+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1244779827OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616741Wikidata ID
Q1774051
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Dvin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دفين”
- Armenian: “Dvin”
- Armenian: “Դվին”
- Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Düyün”
- Chechen: “Двин”
- Chinese: “Dvin”
- Dutch: “Dvin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دفين”
- French: “Dvin”
- Georgian: “დვინი (სოფელი)”
- Georgian: “დვინი”
- Greek: “Ντβιν”
- Irish: “Dvin”
- Italian: “Dvin”
- Malay: “Dvin”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dvin”
- Persian: “دوین (روستا)”
- Persian: “دوین”
- Polish: “Dwin (miejscowość)”
- Polish: “Dwin”
- Russian: “Двин”
- Slovenian: “Dvin”
- Tatar: “Двин авылы”
- Turkish: “Aşağı Düğün”
- Turkish: “Dvin”
- Ukrainian: “Двін”
- Uzbek: “Dvin, Armaniston”
- Uzbek: “Dvin”
- Vietnamese: “Dvin, Ararat”
- Vietnamese: “Dvin”
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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 “Dvin”. Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.