Artsvakar
Artsvakar, is former village and currently a neighbourhood within the town of Gavar, the capital of Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It is home to an Iron Age fortress, dating back to the 2nd millennium BC.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: place in Gegharkunik, Armenia
- Also known as: “Ghshlakh” and “Kishlag”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Noratus cemetery and Holy Mother of God Church.
Noratus cemetery
Photo: Eupator, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Noratus Cemetery, also spelled Noraduz, is a medieval cemetery with many early khachkars located in the village of Noratus in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near Gavar and Lake Sevan, 90 km north of Yerevan.
Surb Astvatsatsin Church
Church
Photo: Valen1988, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Surb Astvatsatsin Church is situated 3½ km west of Artsvakar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Noratus and Gavarr.
Noratus
Village
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Noratus is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near the town of Gavar. The village has a rich historical past, and is famous for the Noratus cemetery, the largest surviving cemetery in the world featuring khachkars.
Gavarr
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gavar is a town in Armenia serving as the administrative centre of the Gavar Municipality and the Gegharkunik Province. It is situated among the high mountains of Gegham range to the west of Lake Sevan, with an average height of 1982 meters above sea level. Gavarr is situated 3½ km west of Artsvakar.
Karmirgyugh
Village
Photo: Shaun Dunphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Karmirgyugh is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. Karmirgyugh is situated 3½ km southwest of Artsvakar.
Artsvakar
- Categories: district and locality
- Location: Lake Sevan Region, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.35498° or 40° 21′ 18″ northLongitude
45.16914° or 45° 10′ 9″ eastElevation
1,921 metres (6,302 feet)Open location code
8HG79539+XMOpenStreetMap ID
way 786127773OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Russian—“Artsvakar” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Արծվաքար”
- Armenian: “Ղշլաղ”
- Dutch: “Artsvakar”
- Persian: “آرتسواکار”
- Russian: “Арцвакар”
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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 “Artsvakar”. Photo: Սէրուժ, CC BY-SA 3.0.