Aparan
Aparan is is a town at the eastern slopes of Mount Aragats and the northern slopes of Mount Ara, in the Aragatsotn Province of Central Armenia.Photo: Hayk.arabaget, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,870 residents
- Description: town in Armenia
- Also known as: “Abaran Verin”, “Aparan Verin”, “Aparanbol”, “Aparanpol”, “Bash Abaran”, “Bash Aparan”, “Bash Aparan, Aparanbol, Aparan Verin, Aparanpol, Abaran Verin, P’araznavert, K’asakh, Kasagh, K’asagh”, “Dash Abaron”, “K’asagh”, “K’asakh”, “Kasagh”, “P’araznavert”, “Paraznavert”, and “Pash Aparan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Cross Church.
Holy Cross Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
The Kasagh Basilica or the Aparan Basilica, formally known as the Holy Cross Church, is an early medieval Armenian church in the town of Aparan in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kayk and Lusagyugh.
Kayk
Village
Kayk is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 29 km away from Ashtarak 1850 meters above the sea level. The population migrated to Kayk during 1828-1929 from villages of Alashkert, Mush, Khoy, and Salmast regions.
Lusagyugh
Village
Photo: Serouj, Public domain.
Lusagyugh is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, located 1 km northeast of the town of Aparan. The village is home to a church dating back to 1887 as well as the ruins of a 4th-century church.
Saralanj
Village
Saralanj is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.
Aparan
- Categories: city or town in Armenia and locality
- Location: Aparan Municipality, Aragatsotn Province, Central Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.5908° or 40° 35′ 27″ northLongitude
44.3571° or 44° 21′ 26″ eastPopulation
5,870Elevation
1,892 metres (6,207 feet)United Nations Location Code
AM A3AOpen location code
8HG6H9R4+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 130039585OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Aparan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أباران”
- Armenian: “Ապարան”
- Armenian: “Բաշ-Աբարան”
- Azerbaijani: “Abaran”
- Belarusian: “Апаран”
- Bengali: “অপারন, আর্মেনিয়া”
- Bengali: “অপারন”
- Bulgarian: “Апаран”
- Catalan: “Aparan”
- Cebuano: “Aparan”
- Chechen: “Апаран”
- Chinese: “Aparan”
- Chinese: “阿帕兰”
- Chinese: “阿帕蘭”
- Czech: “Aparan”
- Dutch: “Aparan”
- Esperanto: “Aparan”
- Finnish: “Aparan”
- French: “Aparan”
- Georgian: “აპარანი”
- German: “Aparan”
- Greek: “Απαράν”
- Hindi: “अपरन”
- Hungarian: “Aparan”
- Indonesian: “Aparan”
- Italian: “Aparan”
- Japanese: “アパラン”
- Kazakh: “Апаран”
- Kurdish: “Aparan”
- Lithuanian: “Aparanas”
- Malay: “Aparan”
- Malayalam: “അപരാൻ”
- Mazanderani: “آپاران”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aparan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aparan”
- Norwegian: “Aparan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aparan”
- Persian: “آپاران”
- Persian: “اپاران”
- Polish: “Aparan”
- Portuguese: “Aparã”
- Portuguese: “Aparan”
- Romanian: “Aparan”
- Russian: “Апаран”
- Russian: “Баш-Апаран”
- Scots: “Aparan”
- Serbian: “Апаран”
- Slovak: “Aparan”
- South Azerbaijani: “آپاران”
- Spanish: “Aparan”
- Spanish: “Aparán”
- Swahili: “Aparan”
- Swedish: “Aparan”
- Turkish: “Aparan”
- Ukrainian: “Апаран”
- Upper Sorbian: “Aparan”
- Uzbek: “Aparan”
- Vietnamese: “Aparan”
- Western Armenian: “Ապարան”
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