Artsvashen
Artsvashen or Bashkend is a de jure Armenian village in the Chambarak Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It is a 40 square kilometres exclave of Armenia, and is surrounded by the territory of Azerbaijan, whose forces have captured and occupied it since the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1992.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 127 residents
- Description: village in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Artsbashen” and “Bashkend”
- Address: Gədəbəy rayonu
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Düz Rəsullu and Novosaratovka.
Düz Rəsullu
Hamlet
Düz Rəsullu is a village and municipality in the Gadabay Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,237. The municipality consists of the villages of Düz Rəsullu, Gərməşeyli, Göyəmli, Rəhimli, Hüseynqulular, and Təkyemişan. Düz Rəsullu is situated 4½ km northwest of Artsvashen.
Novosaratovka
Village
Photo: Asif Masimov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Novosaratovka is a village, municipality and minor transport hub in the Gadabay Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,328. Though it's probably older, the current settlement was originally founded in the 1830s by Russians of the Doukhobor sect, one of several Old Believer villages in the area including nearby Novoivanovka and Gorelsk. Novosaratovka is situated 8 km southeast of Artsvashen.
Lazılar
Hamlet
Lazılar is a village in the Tovuz Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Ağbaşlar. Lazılar is situated 9 km east of Artsvashen.
Artsvashen
- Categories: village in Armenia, exclave, enclave, and locality
- Location: Chambarak Municipality, Lake Sevan Region, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.6403° or 40° 38′ 25″ northLongitude
45.52177° or 45° 31′ 18″ eastPopulation
127Elevation
1,463 metres (4,800 feet)Open location code
8HG7JGRC+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 2032851608OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
616883Wikidata ID
Q514729
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Artsvashen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آرتسواشن”
- Armenian: “Arcvashen”
- Armenian: “Artsvashen”
- Armenian: “Արծվաշեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Artsvaşen”
- Azerbaijani: “Başkənd”
- Belarusian: “Арцвашэн”
- Chechen: “Арцвашен”
- Chinese: “Artsvashen”
- Chinese: “巴什肯德”
- Chinese: “阿爾茨瓦申”
- Dutch: “Artsvasjen”
- Esperanto: “Arcvaŝen”
- Estonian: “Artsvašen”
- Finnish: “Artsvašen”
- Finnish: “Artsvashen”
- French: “Artsvashen”
- Georgian: “არწვაშენი”
- German: “Arzwaschen”
- Greek: “Αρτσβασέν/Μπασκέντ”
- Greek: “Αρτσβασέν”
- Hungarian: “Arcvasen”
- Hungarian: “Artsvashen”
- Indonesian: “Artsvashen”
- Italian: “Artsvashen”
- Japanese: “アルツヴァシェン”
- Korean: “아르츠바셴”
- Lithuanian: “Arcvašenas”
- Malay: “Artsvashen”
- Malayalam: “ആർട്സ്വാഷെൻ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Artsvashen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Artsvasjen”
- Norwegian: “Artsvasjen”
- Persian: “آرتسواشن”
- Polish: “Arcwaszen”
- Portuguese: “Artsvashen”
- Portuguese: “Bashkend”
- Pushto: “آرتْسْواشِن”
- Romanian: “Arțvașen”
- Russian: “Арцвашен”
- Russian: “Башкент”
- Scots: “Artsvashen”
- Serbian: “Арцвашен”
- Spanish: “Artsvashen”
- Spanish: “Artsvashén”
- Tatar: “Башкәнд (Гәдәбәй)”
- Tatar: “Башкәнд”
- Thai: “บัชแคนด์”
- Thai: “อาร์ตสวาแชน”
- Turkish: “Artsvashen”
- Turkish: “Başkent (I)”
- Ukrainian: “Арцвашен”
- Uzbek: “Artsvashen”
- Western Armenian: “Արծուաշէն”
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