Oshakan
Oshakan is a village in Aragatsotn Province, Armenia and has about 5,950 residents. Oshakan is situated nearby to the village Voskevaz, as well as near the neighborhood IPR ИФИ Городок.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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oshakan and Voskevaz.
Oshakan
Village
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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.
Voskevaz
Village
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Voskevaz is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Not far from the center of the village is the church of Surp Hovhannes, built between the 7th and 12th centuries. The village is home to the Hayasy brewery.
Sasunik
Village
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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. Sasunik is situated 3½ km southeast of Oshakan.
Oshakan
- Type: Village with 5,950 residents
- Category: locality
- Location: Aragatsotn Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.26689° or 40° 16′ 1″ northLongitude
44.31173° or 44° 18′ 42″ eastPopulation
5,950Open location code
8HG67886+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1883516049OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Russian—“Oshakan” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Օշական”
- Russian: “Ошакан”
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