Tatev
Tatev is a village in Southern Armenia which is famous for its medieval monastery and for the Wings of Tatev, which is, as of 2019, the longest reversible aerial tramway built in only one section, and holds the record for longest non-stop double track cable car.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 814 residents
- Description: village in Syunik Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Taten”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tatev Monastery and Great Hermitage of Tatev.
Tatev Monastery
Photo: Alexander Naumov, CC BY 3.0.
The Tatev Monastery is a 9th-century Armenian Apostolic Christian monastery located on a large basalt plateau near the village of Tatev in the Syunik Province in southeastern Armenia.
Great Hermitage of Tatev
Church
Photo: Psalm Tours, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Hermitage of Tatev is a 17th-century Armenian monastery located in the Vorotan river valley in the Syunik Province of Armenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tandzatap and Svarants.
Tandzatap
Village
Photo: Moreau.henri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tandzatap is a village in the Tatev Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia.
Tatev
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Tatev Municipality, Syunik Province, Southern Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.384° or 39° 23′ 3″ northLongitude
46.2437° or 46° 14′ 37″ eastPopulation
814Elevation
1,375 metres (4,511 feet)Open location code
8HF896MV+JFOpenStreetMap ID
node 505744365OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
174748Wikidata ID
Q2224171
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Tatev” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Tat’ev”
- Armenian: “Տաթեվ”
- Armenian: “Տաթև”
- Azerbaijani: “Tatev”
- Belarusian: “Татэў”
- Catalan: “Tatev”
- Chechen: “Татев”
- Chinese: “Tatev”
- Dutch: “Tatev”
- Esperanto: “Tatev (vilaĝo)”
- Esperanto: “Tatev”
- French: “Tatev”
- Georgian: “ტათევი (სოფელი)”
- Georgian: “ტათევი”
- German: “Tatew”
- Greek: “Τατέβ”
- Italian: “Tatev”
- Macedonian: “Татев (село)”
- Macedonian: “Татев”
- Malay: “Tatev (kampung)”
- Malay: “Tatev”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tatev”
- Persian: “تاتو”
- Polish: “Tatew (miejscowość)”
- Polish: “Tatew”
- Russian: “Татев”
- Scots: “Tatev”
- Spanish: “Tatev”
- Turkish: “Tatev”
- Ukrainian: “Татев”
- Uzbek: “Tatev (qishloq)”
- Uzbek: “Tatev”
- Vietnamese: “Tatev, Syunik”
- Vietnamese: “Tatev”
- Western Armenian: “Տաթեւ”
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