Ashtarak
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Մելքոն Մինասյան, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 17,600 residents
- Description: city in Armenia
- Also known as: “Ashtarakats’ Gyugh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karmravor Church and St. Mariane Church.
Karmravor Church
Church
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karmravor, also known as the Church of Holy Mother of God is a 7th-century Armenian Apostolic church in the town of Ashtarak in the Aragatsotn Province.
St. Mariane Church
Church
Photo: Soghomon Matevosyan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Marianeh church, also known as Saint Marineh, is a medieval Armenian church located in the town of Ashtarak in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, currently serving as the alternative seat of the Diocese of Aragatsotn of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mughni and Nor Yerznka.
Mughni
Village
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Mughni is a village situated in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province in Armenia. It is located just to the north of Ashtarak town and falls under its municipality.
Nor Yerznka
Village
Nor Yerznka is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Nor Yerznka is situated 3½ km northeast of Ashtarak.
Karin
Village
Karin, is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Karin is situated 4½ km south of Ashtarak.
Ashtarak
- Categories: city or town in Armenia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Ashtarak Municipality, Aragatsotn Province, Central Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.2913° or 40° 17′ 29″ northLongitude
44.3608° or 44° 21′ 39″ eastPopulation
17,600Elevation
1,140 metres (3,740 feet)United Nations Location Code
AM ASHOpen location code
8HG679R6+G8OpenStreetMap ID
way 177922252OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
616877Wikidata ID
Q39510
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Ashtarak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آشتاراك”
- Armenian: “Ashtarak”
- Armenian: “Աշտարակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Əştərək”
- Belarusian: “Аштарак”
- Bengali: “আশ্তারাক”
- Bosnian: “Ashtarak”
- Bosnian: “Aštarak”
- Bulgarian: “Аштарак”
- Bulgarian: “Ащарак”
- Catalan: “Ashtarak”
- Catalan: “Astarak”
- Cebuano: “Ashtarak”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەشتەرەک”
- Chechen: “Аштарак”
- Chinese: “Achtarak”
- Chinese: “阿什塔拉克”
- Czech: “Aštarak”
- Danish: “Ashtarak”
- Dutch: “Ashtarak”
- Dutch: “Asjtarak”
- Esperanto: “Aŝtarako”
- Estonian: “Aštarak”
- Finnish: “Ashtarak”
- French: “Achtarak”
- French: “Ashtarak”
- Galician: “Ashtarak”
- Georgian: “აშტარაკი”
- German: “Aschtarak”
- Greek: “Ασταρακ”
- Greek: “Ασταράκ”
- Gujarati: “અષ્ટારક”
- Hebrew: “אשטרק”
- Hindi: “अष्ताराक”
- Hungarian: “Astarak”
- Indonesian: “Ashtarak”
- Italian: “Ashtarak”
- Japanese: “アシュタラク”
- Kannada: “ಅಷ್ಟಾರಕ್”
- Korean: “아슈타라크”
- Latvian: “Aštaraka”
- Lithuanian: “Aštarakas”
- Malay: “Ashtarak”
- Malayalam: “അഷ്റ്റരാക്”
- Marathi: “अष्टराक”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Achtarak”
- Mingrelian: “აშტარაკი”
- Northern Frisian: “Aschtarak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashtarak”
- Norwegian: “Asjtarak”
- Ossetian: “Аштарак”
- Panjabi: “ਅਸ਼ਤਾਰਕ”
- Persian: “آشتاراک”
- Persian: “اشتاراک”
- Polish: “Asztarak”
- Portuguese: “Achtarak”
- Pushto: “اشتاراک”
- Romanian: “Aștarak”
- Russian: “Аштарак”
- Scots: “Ashtarak”
- Scots: “Աշտարակ”
- Serbian: “Аштарак”
- Serbian: “Աշտարակ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aštarak”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Аштарак”
- Sinhala: “අශ්ටරක්, ආර්මේනියාව”
- Sinhala: “අශ්ටරක්”
- Slovenian: “Aštarak”
- South Azerbaijani: “آشتاراک”
- Spanish: “Ashtarak”
- Swahili: “Ashtarak”
- Swedish: “Asjtarak”
- Tamil: “அஸ்ட்ராக்”
- Telugu: “ఆష్తరాక్”
- Thai: “อัชตารัก”
- Turkish: “Aştarak”
- Ukrainian: “Аштарак”
- Upper Sorbian: “Aštarak”
- Urdu: “آشتاراک”
- Uzbek: “Ashtarak”
- Vietnamese: “Ashtarak”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ashtarak”
- Western Armenian: “Աշտարակ”
- Western Frisian: “Asjtarak”
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