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| Location : |
Southwestern Asia, east of Turkey .
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| Land Boudaries Border Country :
| Azerbaijan-proper 566 km, Azerbaijan-Naxcivan exclave 221 km, Georgia 164 km, Iran 35 km, Turkey 268 km .
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| More informations on the bottom :
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INFORMATIONS MAPS
| Land Boudaries Total :
| 1,254 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| highland continental, hot summers, cold winters .
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| Area Total :
| 29,800 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 28,400 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 1,400 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly smaller than Maryland .
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| Coast Line :
| 0 km (landlocked) .
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| Railways Total :
| 845 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 15,918 km .
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| Waterways :
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| Ports and Harbors :
| none .
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Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1960,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1961,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1962,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1963,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1964,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1965,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1966,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1967,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1968,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1969,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1970,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1971,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1972,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1973,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1974,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1975,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1976,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1977,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1978,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1979,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1980,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1981,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1982,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1983,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1984,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1985,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1986,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1987,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1988,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1989,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1990,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1991,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1992,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1993,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1994,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1995,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1996,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1997,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1998,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 1999,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 2000,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 2001,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 2002,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 2003,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 2004,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 2005,
Map Charentsavan-Carencavan 2006,
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Population on 01-Jan-04 : 24700
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Charentsavan (Arm: ??????????), Kotayk Marz
Most easily reachable from the main Sevan highway rather than the gorge, Charentsavan (19708 p) was founded in 1948 to house workers building the Gumush hydroelectric station, called Lusavan, then renamed in 1967 in honor of the famous but somewhat dissolute poet Eghishe Charents (born Soghomonian in the city of Kars, who died in prison in 1937, accused of nationalist deviation (note his photograph, with distinctive nose, blown up on the wall of the Abovian Street Pizza di Roma, and his house museum on Mashtots Blvd.). Charentsavan waxed fat on cheap electricity, becoming a major industrial city. The Charentsavan machine-building factory, the city’s largest employer, is no longer booming. Note at the entrance to the city the bronze “Renaissance” monumental group, inspired by Charents’s “Curly-headed Boy” opus. Inside the greater Charentsavan boundary is Vardanavank (2354 p, until recently Alapars, anciently and perhaps now again Aylaberk). Refounded in 1828-30 by immigrants from Maku and Khoy, the village center has the General Vardan church, built by Prince Grigor in 901 and rebuilt in the 19th c. According to local legend, one of the stones contains a drop of blood from Vardan Mamikonian, the hero of the famous defeat of Avarayr on May 26, 451 at the hands of Persians attempting to restore the Zoroastrian religion in Armenia.
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