Spitak
Spitak is a town on the shores of Pambak River in Northern Armenia, surrounded by mountains, between Gyumri and Vanadzor. The town was the epicenter of the Spitak earthquake, the results of which are still visible throughout town.
- Type: Town with 12,700 residents
- Description: town in Armenia
- Also known as: “Amamlu”, “Amamth, Hamamlu”, “Hamamlı”, and “Hamamlu”
- Historically known as: “Amamth”
Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Harutyun Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arevashogh and Shenavan.
Shenavan
Village
Shenavan is a town in the Lori Province of Armenia. Shenavan is situated 4½ km northwest of Spitak.
Spitak
- Categories: city or town in Armenia and locality
- Location: Spitak Municipality, Lori, Northern Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.8343° or 40° 50′ 4″ north
Longitude
44.2648° or 44° 15′ 53″ east
Population
12,700
Elevation
1,514 metres (4,967 feet)
UN/LOCODE
AM SPI
Open location code
8HG6R7M7+PW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Spitak” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Spitak”
- Armenian: “Համամլը” (historical)
- Armenian: “Համամլի” (historical)
- Armenian: “Համամլու” (historical)
- Armenian: “Սպիտակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Spitak”
- Belarusian: “Спітак”
- Belarusian: “Сьпітак”
- Bulgarian: “Спитак”
- Catalan: “Spitak”
- Cebuano: “Spitak”
- Chechen: “Спитак”
- Chinese: “斯皮塔克”
- Chuvash: “Спитак”
- Czech: “Spitak”
- Dutch: “Spitak”
- Esperanto: “Spitak”
- Esperanto: “Spitako”
- Estonian: “Spitak”
- Finnish: “Spitak”
- French: “Spitak”
- Georgian: “სპიტაკი”
- German: “Spitak”
- Greek: “Σπιτάκ”
- Hungarian: “Spitak”
- Indonesian: “Spitak”
- Interlingua: “Spitak”
- Italian: “Spitak”
- Japanese: “スピタク”
- Kazakh: “Спитак”
- Kurdish: “Spîtak”
- Lithuanian: “Spitakas”
- Malay: “Spitak”
- Malayalam: “സ്പിറ്റാക്ക്”
- Mazanderani: “اسپیتاک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Spitak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spitak”
- Norwegian: “Spitak”
- Ossetian: “Спитак”
- Persian: “اسپیتاک”
- Polish: “Spitak”
- Portuguese: “Espitaque”
- Portuguese: “Spitak”
- Romanian: “Spitak”
- Russian: “Амамлу” (historical)
- Russian: “Спитак”
- Scots: “Spitak”
- Serbian: “Спитак”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسپیتاک”
- Spanish: “Spitak”
- Swedish: “Spitak”
- Tumbuka: “Spitak”
- Turkish: “Spitak”
- Ukrainian: “Спітак”
- Upper Sorbian: “Spitak”
- Urdu: “اسپیٹاک”
- Uzbek: “Spitak”
- Vietnamese: “Spitak”
- “Spitak”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Arevashogh and Shenavan.
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Worth a closer look: Gyumri and Vanadzor.
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