Vardenis
Vardenis is a city of 12,000 people in Lake Sevan Region. There are a few small monasteries and chapels, mountains and valleys that only those making it this far will have a chance to see.
- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: town in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Basargetjar”, “Basarkeçär”, “Basarkeçer”, “Basarkechar”, “Gegamabak”, “Vasakasjen”, “Voskesjen”, and “Басаркечар”
- Historically known as: “Geghamabak” and “Vasakashen”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akunk and Khachaghbyur.
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Vardenis
- Categories: city or town in Armenia and locality
- Location: Vardenis Municipality, Lake Sevan Region, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.1846° or 40° 11′ 5″ north
Longitude
45.727° or 45° 43′ 37″ east
Population
12,300
Elevation
1,944 metres (6,378 feet)
Open location code
8HG75PMG+RQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Vardenis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واردنيس”
- Armenian: “Բասարգեչար, Բասարքեչար” (historical)
- Armenian: “Գեղամաբակ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Վասակաշեն” (historical)
- Armenian: “Վարդենիս”
- Azerbaijani: “Basarkeçər”
- Belarusian: “Вардэніс”
- Bulgarian: “Варденис”
- Catalan: “Vardenis”
- Cebuano: “Vardenis”
- Chechen: “Варденис”
- Chinese: “瓦尔代尼斯/瓦爾代尼斯”
- Chinese: “瓦爾代尼斯”
- Czech: “Vardenis”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vardenis”
- Dutch: “Vardenis”
- Esperanto: “Vardenis”
- Estonian: “Vardenis”
- Finnish: “Vardenis”
- French: “Vardenis”
- Georgian: “ვარდენისი”
- German: “Wardenis”
- Greek: “Βαρντενίς”
- Greek: “Βαρντένις”
- Hebrew: “ורדניס”
- Hindi: “वर्देनिस”
- Indonesian: “Vardenis”
- Italian: “Vardenis”
- Japanese: “ヴァルデニス”
- Kazakh: “Варденис”
- Kurdish: “Vardênîs”
- Lithuanian: “Vardenisas”
- Malay: “Vardenis”
- Malayalam: “വാർഡെനിസ്”
- Mazanderani: “واردنیس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vardenis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vardenis”
- Norwegian: “Vardenis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vardenis”
- Ossetian: “Варденис”
- Persian: “واردنیس”
- Polish: “Wardenis”
- Romanian: “Vardenis”
- Russian: “Basargech’ar” (historical)
- Russian: “Басаргечар” (historical)
- Russian: “Варденис”
- Scots: “Vardenis”
- Serbian: “Варденис”
- Slovak: “Vardenis”
- South Azerbaijani: “واردنیس”
- Spanish: “Vardenis”
- Spanish: “Vardenís”
- Swedish: “Vardenis”
- Turkish: “Basargeçer”
- Turkish: “Vardenis”
- Ukrainian: “Варденіс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wardenis”
- Urdu: “واردینیس”
- Vietnamese: “Vardenis, Gegharkunik”
- Vietnamese: “Vardenis”
- Western Armenian: “Վարդենիս”
- “Վարդենիս”
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