Artashar
Artashar is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. Today, almost 42% of the population are Yazidi Kurds.Places of Interest
Highlights include Metsamor.
Metsamor
Museum
Photo: Sonashen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Metsamor site is an archaeological site in the Ararat Plain region of Armenia. It includes the remains of settlements and structures dating from the Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Early Iron Ages.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zartonk and Yeghegnut.
Zartonk
Village
Zartonk, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. Almost 42% of the population are from the Yazidi minority.
Yeghegnut
Village
Yeghegnut, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The majority of the village are Armenians with 663 of the Yazidi minority. Yeghegnut is situated 3 km southwest of Artashar.
Taronik
Village
Photo: Sonashen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Taronik is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The Iron Age settlement of Metsamor site is located only 1 km southwest of Taronik. Taronik is situated 3 km northeast of Artashar.
Artashar
- Type: Village with 1,170 residents
- Description: village in Armavir Province of Armenia
- Categories: village in Armenia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Metsamor Municipality, Armavir Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.10932° or 40° 6′ 34″ northLongitude
44.1807° or 44° 10′ 51″ eastPopulation
1,170Elevation
845 metres (2,772 feet)Open location code
8HG6455J+P7OpenStreetMap ID
way 783020398OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Artashar” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Artashar”
- Armenian: “Արտաշար”
- Azerbaijani: “Fəthabad”
- Belarusian: “Арташар”
- Chechen: “Арташар”
- Chinese: “Artashar”
- Danish: “Artashar”
- Dutch: “Artashar”
- French: “Artashar”
- Georgian: “არტაშარი”
- Greek: “Αρτασάρ”
- Italian: “Artashar”
- Malay: “Artashar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Artashar”
- Persian: “آرتاشار”
- Polish: “Artaszar”
- Russian: “Арташар”
- Scots: “Artashar”
- Spanish: “Artashar”
- Turkish: “Artashar”
- Turkish: “Fethâbâd”
- Ukrainian: “Арташар”
- Uzbek: “Artashar”
- Vietnamese: “Artashar”
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