Amberd
Amberd; known as Franganots until 1978, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The village is home to the historic church of Thomas the Apostle, dating back to the 12th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,650 residents
- Description: village in Armavir Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Amberd, Armavir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karmravor Church.
Karmravor Church
Church
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karmravor Church is situated 3½ km southwest of Amberd.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lernamerdz and Aghavnatun.
Lernamerdz
Village
Photo: Գարվիք, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lernamerdz is an Armenian village of 400 people in Armavir Province that still follows Soviet communism, even after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Aghavnatun
Village
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aghavnatun is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. it is home to ruins of an iron-age fortress, a 13th-century tomb and a chapel. There are four churches in the village, the oldest of which is Surp Gevork Church of the 10th century.
Doghs
Village
Photo: Raz from Armenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Doghs is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. In 894, Smbat I defeated Emir Apshin of Atrapatakan in a battle at Doghs. The town's church, dedicated to Surb Stepanos, was built in the 19th century.
Amberd
- Categories: village in Armenia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Khoy Municipality, Armavir Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.24218° or 40° 14′ 32″ northLongitude
44.2704° or 44° 16′ 13″ eastPopulation
1,650Elevation
946 metres (3,104 feet)Open location code
8HG667RC+V5OpenStreetMap ID
way 894495861OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Amberd” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Amberd”
- Armenian: “Gmbet’”
- Armenian: “Ամբերդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Firəng kəndi”
- Azerbaijani: “Firəng”
- Belarusian: “Амберд”
- Belarusian: “Амбэрд”
- Cebuano: “Amberd”
- Chechen: “Амберд”
- Chinese: “Amberd”
- Dutch: “Amberd”
- French: “Amberd”
- Georgian: “ამბერდი”
- Greek: “Αμπέρντ”
- Italian: “Amberd”
- Italian: “Franganots”
- Italian: “Frankanots”
- Malay: “Amberd, Armavir”
- Malay: “Amberd”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amberd”
- Persian: “آمبرد، آرماویر”
- Persian: “امبرد، ارماویر”
- Polish: “Amberd (miejscowość)”
- Polish: “Amberd”
- Portuguese: “Amberde (Armavir)”
- Portuguese: “Amberde”
- Russian: “Амберд”
- Scots: “Amberd, Armavir”
- Scots: “Amberd”
- Swedish: “Amberd”
- Turkish: “Amberd”
- Ukrainian: “Амберд”
- Uzbek: “Amberd”
- Vietnamese: “Amberd, Armavir”
- Vietnamese: “Amberd”
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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 “Amberd”. Photo: Alexander Naumov, CC BY 3.0.