Avan
Avan is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. The population of the village is mainly Armenian. It is home to the basilica-style church of Surb Astvatsatsin that sits along a street just off the main road beside the main cemetery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 940 residents
- Description: village in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Avan, Armenia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Surb Stepanos.
Surb Stepanos
Church
Photo: Ahaik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Surb Stepanos is a church, which is situated 3 km south of Avan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Verin Sasunik and Khnusik.
Verin Sasunik
Village
Photo: Ahaik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Verin Sasunik is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It was depopulated in 1960 and resettled in 1989.
Khnusik
Village
Khnusik is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It has hot summers and a humid continental climate. Khnusik is situated 2½ km east of Avan.
Kosh
Village
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kosh is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, 18 km south-west of the district centre Ashtarak. The town is attested as Kvash in early Christian times. Kosh is situated 4½ km south of Avan.
Avan
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Ashtarak Municipality, Aragatsotn Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.33579° or 40° 20′ 9″ northLongitude
44.16874° or 44° 10′ 8″ eastPopulation
940Elevation
1,678 metres (5,505 feet)Open location code
8HG685P9+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 2962272226OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616863Wikidata ID
Q1254134
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Avan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آفان”
- Armenian: “Avan”
- Armenian: “Ավան”
- Azerbaijani: “Avan”
- Belarusian: “Аван”
- Chechen: “Аван”
- Chinese: “Avan”
- Dutch: “Avan”
- Finnish: “Avan”
- French: “Avan”
- Georgian: “ავანი (სოფელი)”
- Georgian: “ავანი”
- German: “Avan”
- German: “Awan”
- Italian: “Avan”
- Malay: “Avan, Aragatsotn”
- Malay: “Avan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Avan”
- Persian: “آوان (روستای ارمنستان)”
- Persian: “آوان، آراگاتسوتن”
- Polish: “Awan”
- Russian: “Аван”
- Spanish: “Avan”
- Turkish: “Avan”
- Ukrainian: “Аван”
- Vietnamese: “Avan, Aragatsotn”
- Vietnamese: “Avan”
- Western Armenian: “Աւան”
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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 “Avan”. Photo: Nairi, CC BY-SA 3.0.