Harich
Harich is a village in the Artik Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Within the village is the Harichavank Monastery of the 8th century. Across the gorge from the monastery is a 3rd millennium BC fortress and tomb field.- Type: Village with 1,160 residents
- Description: village in Armenia
- Also known as: “Harich, Armenia”
- Historically known as: “Ghpchagh” and “Kipchag”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harichavank Monastery and Surb Astvatsatsin.
Harichavank Monastery
Church
The Harichavank is a 7th-century Armenian monastery located near the village of Harich in the Shirak Province of Armenia. The village is 3 km southeast of the town of Artik.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nahapetavan and Saralanj.
Nahapetavan
Village
Nahapetavan is a village in the Artik Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in 1961 in honor of Nahapet Kurghinian, a participant in the Bolshevik uprising in May 1920.
Artik
Town
Artik is a town in the Artik Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. As of the 2011 census, the town had a population of 19,534. As per the 2016 official estimate, the population of Artik was around 18,800. Artik is situated 3 km northwest of Harich.
Harich
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Artik Municipality, Shirak Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.60788° or 40° 36′ 28″ north
Longitude
44.0023° or 44° 0′ 8″ east
Population
1,160
Elevation
2,009 metres (6,591 feet)
Open location code
8HG6J252+5W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Harich” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Խփչախ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Կիպչախ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Հառիճ”
- Armenian: “Հառիչ”
- Armenian: “Հառիջ”
- Armenian: “Ղբչախ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղբչաղ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղեչաղ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղըբչախ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղըպչաղ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղըփչաղ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղպչախ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղփչախ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ղփչաղ” (historical)
- Azerbaijani: “Qıpçaq (Şörəyel)”
- Azerbaijani: “Qıpçaq”
- Bulgarian: “Арич”
- Chechen: “Арич”
- Chinese: “Harich”
- Dutch: “Harich”
- French: “Harich”
- Georgian: “არიჭი”
- Greek: “Χαρίτς”
- Italian: “Haṙič̣”
- Italian: “Harich”
- Malay: “Harich, Armenia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Harich”
- Persian: “هاریچ”
- Polish: “Harich”
- Polish: “Harricz”
- Romanian: “Harici, Șirak”
- Russian: “Арич”
- Russian: “Кипчаг” (historical)
- Scots: “Harich, Armenie”
- Spanish: “Harich”
- Turkish: “Harich”
- Turkish: “Kıpçak”
- Vietnamese: “Harich, Shirak”
- Vietnamese: “Harich”
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