Karin
Karin, is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Karin has about 666 residents and an elevation of 1,069 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 666 residents
- Description: village in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Karin, Armenia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Mesrop Mashtots church and Oshakan bridge.
Saint Mesrop Mashtots church
Church
Saint Mesrop Mashtots Church is an Armenian Apostolic church in Oshakan that contains the grave of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. Saint Mesrop Mashtots church is situated 3½ km west of Karin.
Oshakan bridge
Bridge
Photo: Valen1988, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oshakan bridge is situated 3½ km west of Karin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sasunik and Oshakan.
Sasunik
Village
Photo: Ahaik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sasunik is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It was founded as a collective farm in 1955, and villagers were resettled from the old village of Sasunik in 1960.
Oshakan
Village
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oshakan is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 3 kilometers southwest from Ashtarak. It is well known to historians and pilgrims of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the site of the grave of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. Oshakan is situated 3½ km west of Karin.
Ashtarak
Photo: Մելքոն Մինասյան, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashtarak is a small city in Central Armenia 20 km northwest of Yerevan. It features the best-preserved Armenian church of the 7th century, Karmravor.
Karin
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Ashtarak Municipality, Aragatsotn Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.25195° or 40° 15′ 7″ northLongitude
44.35603° or 44° 21′ 22″ eastPopulation
666Elevation
1,069 metres (3,507 feet)Open location code
8HG67924+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 5611666967OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8332820Wikidata ID
Q6370813
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Karin” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կարին”
- Chechen: “Карин”
- Dutch: “Karin, Armenia”
- Georgian: “კარინი (სომხეთი)”
- Georgian: “კარინი”
- Japanese: “カリン”
- Persian: “کارین، ارمنستان”
- Polish: “Karin”
- Russian: “Карин”
- Spanish: “Karin”
- Turkish: “Karin”
- Ukrainian: “Карін (село)”
- Ukrainian: “Карін”
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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 “Karin”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 2.5.