Akhtala
Akhtala is a town and municipal community in the Lori Province of Northern Armenia, located along the Shamlugh river, on the slopes of Lalvar mountain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,930 residents
- Description: town in Lori, Armenia
- Also known as: “Akhdala”, “Akhtali”, and “Nizhnyaya Akhtala”
- Historically known as: “Pghndzahank”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Akhtala Monastery.
Akhtala Monastery
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Akhtala, also known as Pghindzavank is a 10th-century Armenian Apostolic monastery located in the town of Akhtala in the marz of Lori, 185 kilometers north of Yerevan and 87 kilometers south of Tbilisi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neghots and Pokr Ayrum.
Neghots
Village
Photo: Arne mueseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Neghots is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia.
Pokr Ayrum
Village
Pokr Ayrum is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. The village was populated by Azerbaijanis before the exodus of Azerbaijanis from Armenia after the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Akhtala
- Categories: city or town in Armenia, urban-type settlement, and locality
- Location: Alaverdi Municipality, Lori, Northern Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.1482° or 41° 8′ 53″ northLongitude
44.7698° or 44° 46′ 11″ eastPopulation
1,930Elevation
708 metres (2,323 feet)Open location code
8HH64QX9+7WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1477894183OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
616995Wikidata ID
Q614157
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Akhtala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آختالا”
- Armenian: “Axtala”
- Armenian: “Ախդալա”
- Armenian: “Ախթալա”
- Armenian: “Ախտալա”
- Armenian: “Ախտալի”
- Armenian: “Պղնձահանք” (historical)
- Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Axtala”
- Belarusian: “Ахтала”
- Bulgarian: “Ахтала”
- Catalan: “Akhtalà”
- Chechen: “Ахтала”
- Chinese: “Akhtala”
- Czech: “Achtala”
- Dutch: “Achtala”
- Esperanto: “Aĥtala”
- Estonian: “Ahthala”
- French: “Akhtala”
- Georgian: “ახტალა”
- German: “Achtala”
- Greek: “Αχταλά”
- Greek: “Αχτάλα”
- Hindi: “अखतला”
- Indonesian: “Akhtala”
- Italian: “Akhtala”
- Lithuanian: “Achtala”
- Malay: “Akhtala”
- Malayalam: “അഖ്തല”
- Mazanderani: “آختالا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Akhtala”
- Moksha: “Ахтала”
- Nepali: “अखतला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akhtala”
- Norwegian: “Akhtala”
- Persian: “آختالا”
- Polish: “Achtala”
- Romanian: “Ahtala”
- Romanian: “Akhtala”
- Russian: “Ахдала”
- Russian: “Ахтала”
- Russian: “Ахтали”
- Russian: “Пхндзаанк” (historical)
- South Azerbaijani: “آختالا، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Ajtala”
- Swahili: “Akhtala”
- Turkish: “Ahtala”
- Ukrainian: “Ахтала”
- Upper Sorbian: “Achtala”
- Uzbek: “Akhtala (qishloq)”
- Vietnamese: “Akhtala”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Akhtala”. Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.