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Mount Aragats

Index Mount Aragats

Mount Aragats (Արագած,; formerly Ալագյազ, Alagyaz via Alagöz) is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. [1]

93 relations: Aghavnatun, Aghdzk, Akhurian River, Alagyaz, Amberd, Anania Shirakatsi, Andesite, Aparan, Ara the Beautiful, Aragatsotn Province, Ararat Plain, Armenia, Armenian alphabet, Armenian dram, Armenian Highlands, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Armenian Weekly, Armenpress, Arsacid dynasty of Armenia, Arshakid Mausoleum, Artashavan, Artik, Ashtarak, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Astrophysics, Avetik Isahakyan, Basalt, Basaltic andesite, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Byurakan, Byurakan Observatory, Central Intelligence Agency, Classical Armenian, Encyclopædia Britannica, European Geosciences Union, First Republic of Armenia, Fissure vent, Gevorg Bashinjaghian, Gregory the Illuminator, Grigory Gagarin, Guinness World Records, Gyumri, Hayk, History of Armenia (book), Holocene, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Kasagh River, K–Ar dating, Khachatur Abovian, ..., Komitas, Lahar, Lake Kari, Lesser Caucasus, List of elevation extremes by country, List of volcanoes in Armenia, Mafic, Mantash, Marietta Shaginyan, Massif, Mesrop Mashtots, Moritz Wagner, Mount Ararat, Mount Süphan, Movses Khorenatsi, Nagorno-Karabakh War, National Gallery of Armenia, Oshakan, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, PanARMENIAN.Net, Panos Terlemezian, Pomegranate, Public Television company of Armenia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Robert Kocharyan, Robert W. Thomson, Russian Empire, Sabalan, Shirak Province, Shirak State University, Silva Kaputikyan, Stratovolcano, Talin, Armenia, The World Factbook, Turkish language, Ultra-prominent peak, University of Bergen, Vahramashen Church, Victor Ambartsumian, Volcano, World War II, Yeghishe Tadevosyan, Yerevan. Expand index (43 more) »

Aghavnatun

Aghavnatun (Աղավնատուն, formerly, Akhavnatukh) is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

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Aghdzk

Aghdzk (Աղձք, formerly, Akhs, Akis and Dzorap - Ձորափ) is a village on the slopes of Mount Aragats in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

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Akhurian River

The Akhurian, Akhuriyan, Akhuryan or Akhouryan (Ախուրյան Axuryan; Ախուրեան Axurean; Arpaçay; Арпачай or Ахурян) is a river in the South Caucasus.

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Alagyaz

Alagyaz (Ալագյազ; Elegez, until 1938, Mets Dzhamshlu, Bol'shoy Dzhamushli, Dzhamushlu Bol'shoy, Dzhamushli, Mets Jamyshlu, and Mets Jamshlu) is a village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

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Amberd

Amberd (Ամբերդ) is a 7th-century fortress located above sea level, on the slopes of Mount Aragats at the confluence of the Arkashen and Amberd rivers in the province of Aragatsotn, Armenia.

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Anania Shirakatsi

Anania Shirakatsi (Anania Širakac'i, Անանիա Շիրակացի; 610–685 AD), also known as Ananias of Shirak or Širak) was an Armenian philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, geographer and alchemist. His most famous works are Ashkharatsuyts (Geography) and Cosmography and the Calendar. Robert H. Hewsen describes him as "Armenia's First Scientist".

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Andesite

Andesite is an extrusive igneous, volcanic rock, of intermediate composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.

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Aparan

Aparan (Armenian: Ապարան), is a town and urban municipal community in Armenia, located in the Aragatsotn Province, about 50 kilometers northwest of the capital Yerevan.

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Ara the Beautiful

Ara the Beautiful (also Ara the Handsome; Արա Գեղեցիկ Ara Geghetsik) is a legendary Armenian hero.

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Aragatsotn Province

Aragatzotn (Արագածոտն) is a province (marz) of Armenia.

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Ararat Plain

The Ararat plain (Արարատյան դաշտ Araratyan dašt) is one of the largest of the Armenian Plateau.

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Armenia

Armenia (translit), officially the Republic of Armenia (translit), is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia.

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Armenian alphabet

The Armenian alphabet (Հայոց գրեր Hayoc' grer or Հայոց այբուբեն Hayoc' aybowben; Eastern Armenian:; Western Armenian) is an alphabetical writing system used to write Armenian.

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Armenian dram

The dram (դրամ; sign: ֏; code: AMD) is the monetary unit of Armenia and the neighboring unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

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Armenian Highlands

The Armenian Highlands (Haykakan leṙnašxarh; also known as the Armenian Upland, Armenian plateau, Armenian tableland,Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.) New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, pp. 1-17 or simply Armenia) is the central-most and highest of three land-locked plateaus that together form the northern sector of the Middle East.

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Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

The Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia (Հայկական սովետական հանրագիտարան, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran; ASE) publishing house was established in 1967 as a department of the Institute of History of the Armenian Academy of Sciences under the presidency of Viktor Hambardzumyan (1908–1996), co-edited by Abel Simonyan (1922–1994) and Makich Arzumanyan (1919–1988).

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Armenian Weekly

Armenian Weekly (originally Hairenik Weekly) is an English Armenian publication published by Hairenik Association, Inc.

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Armenpress

Armenpress (Armenian Press; Արմենպրես) is the oldest and the main state news agency in Armenia.

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Arsacid dynasty of Armenia

The Arsacid dynasty, known natively as the Arshakuni dynasty (Արշակունի Aršakuni), ruled the Kingdom of Armenia from 54 to 428.

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Arshakid Mausoleum

The Arshakid Kings Mausoleum and Basilica (Արշակունիների դամբարան; also Tomb of the Arshakid Kings or Arshakuni Tomb) is a grave monument complex that sits along a gorge overlooking the Amberd River, and is located in the center of the village of Aghtsk in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

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Artashavan

Artashavan (Արտաշավան; formerly, Ilanchalan), is a village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

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Artik

Artik (Armenian: Արթիկ), is a town and urban municipal community in the Shirak Province of Armenia.

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Ashtarak

Ashtarak (Armenian: Աշտարակ), is a town and urban municipal community in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, located on the left bank of Kasagh River along the gorge, northwest of the capital Yerevan.

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Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is a scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and Central Europe.

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Astrophysics

Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that employs the principles of physics and chemistry "to ascertain the nature of the astronomical objects, rather than their positions or motions in space".

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Avetik Isahakyan

Avetik Isahakyan (Ավետիք Իսահակյան; October 30, 1875 – October 17, 1957) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer and public activist.

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Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.

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Basaltic andesite

Basaltic andesite is a black volcanic rock.

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopedia in Russian.

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Byurakan

Byurakan (Բյուրական), is a major village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, located on the slope of Mount Aragats.

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Byurakan Observatory

The Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, or Byurakan Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Armenian Academy of Sciences.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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Classical Armenian

Classical Armenian (grabar, Western Armenian krapar, meaning "literary "; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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European Geosciences Union

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences.

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First Republic of Armenia

The First Republic of Armenia, officially known at the time of its existence as the Republic of Armenia (classical Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն), was the first modern Armenian state since the loss of Armenian statehood in the Middle Ages.

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Fissure vent

A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure or eruption fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive activity.

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Gevorg Bashinjaghian

Gevorg Bashinjaghian (Գևորգ Բաշինջաղյան; – 4 October 1925) was an Armenian painter who had significant influence on Armenian landscape painting.

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Gregory the Illuminator

Saint Gregory the Illuminator (classical reformed: Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ; Grigor Lusavorich) (&ndash) is the patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

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Grigory Gagarin

Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin (Григорий Григорьевич Гагарин, -) was a Russian painter, Major General and administrator.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gyumri

Gyumri (Գյումրի), is an urban municipal community and the second largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative centre of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country.

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Hayk

Hayk the Great (Հայկ),, or The Great Hayk, also known as Hayk Nahapet (Հայկ Նահապետ,, Hayk the "head of family" or patriarch), is the legendary patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation.

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History of Armenia (book)

The History of Armenia (Պատմություն Հայոց, Patmut'yun Hayots) attributed to Movses Khorenatsi is an early account of Armenia, covering the origins of the Armenian people as well as Armenia's interaction with Sassanid, Byzantine and Arsacid empires down to the 5th century.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Hovhannes Tumanyan

Hovhannes Tumanyan (Հովհաննես Թումանյան, classical spelling: Յովհաննէս Թումանեան) (– March 23, 1923) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, literary and public activist.

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Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Institute for War & Peace Reporting (or IWPR for short) is an independent not-for profit organisation that works with media and civil society to promote positive change in conflict zones, closed societies, and countries in transition around the world.

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Kasagh River

Kasagh is a river in the west-central region of modern Armenia which flows north to south.

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K–Ar dating

Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.

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Khachatur Abovian

Khachatur Abovian (or Abovyan; Խաչատուր Աբովյան; (disappeared)) was an Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was eventually presumed dead.

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Komitas

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, (Կոմիտաս; 26 September 186922 October 1935) was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of Armenian national school of music.

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Lahar

A lahar (from wlahar) is a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water.

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Lake Kari

Lake Kari (Lake Qari) is a lake in Armenia located in the slopes of Mount Aragats mostly formed by ice and snow.

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Lesser Caucasus

Lesser Caucasus (Փոքր Կովկաս Pʿokʿr Kovkas, Azerbaijani: Kiçik Qafqaz Dağları, მცირე კავკასიონი, Малый Кавказ, Persian: Arankuh, Küçük Kafkasya, sometimes translated as "Caucasus Minor") is second of the two main mountain ranges of Caucasus mountains, of length about.

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List of elevation extremes by country

The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country.

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List of volcanoes in Armenia

This is a list of volcanoes in Armenia.

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Mafic

Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron, and is thus a portmanteau of magnesium and '''f'''err'''ic'''.

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Mantash

Mantash (منطش, also Romanized as Manţash) is a village in Khararud Rural District, in the Central District of Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province, Iran.

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Marietta Shaginyan

Marietta Sergeevna Shaginian (Мариэ́тта Серге́евна Шагиня́н; Մարիետա Սերգեյի Շահինյան, April 2, 1888 in Moscow – March 20, 1982 in Moscow) was a Soviet writer and activist of Armenian descent.

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Massif

In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures.

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Mesrop Mashtots

Mesrop Mashtots (Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց Mesrop Maštoc'; Mesrobes Mastosius; 362February 17, 440 AD), was an early medieval Armenian linguist, theologian, statesman and hymnologist.

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Moritz Wagner

Moritz Wagner (Bayreuth, 3 October 1813 – Munich, 31 May 1887) was a German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian.

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Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı; Մասիս, Masis and Արարատ, Ararat) is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey.

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Mount Süphan

Mount Süphan (Süphan Dağı, Sîpanê Xelatê, Սիփան, Sipan) is a stratovolcano located in eastern Turkey, immediately north of Lake Van.

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Movses Khorenatsi

Movses Khorenatsi (ca. 410–490s AD; Խորենացի,, also written as Movsēs Xorenac‘i and Moses of Khoren, Moses of Chorene, and Moses Chorenensis in Latin sources) was a prominent Armenian historian from the period of Late Antiquity and the author of the History of Armenia.

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Nagorno-Karabakh War

The Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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National Gallery of Armenia

The National Gallery of Armenia (Հայաստանի ազգային պատկերասրահ, Hayastani azgayin patkerasrah) is the largest art museum in Armenia.

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Oshakan

Oshakan (Օշական) is a major village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 8 kilometers southwest from Ashtarak.

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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology ("Palaeo3") is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing multidisciplinary studies and comprehensive reviews in the field of palaeoenvironmental geology.

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PanARMENIAN.Net

PanARMENIAN.Net is the first Armenian online news agency, an internet portal based in Yerevan, Armenia.

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Panos Terlemezian

Panos Terlemezian (classical reformed: Փանոս Թերլեմեզյան; 3 March 186530 April 1941) was an Armenian painter, a People's Artist of Armenian SSR (1935).

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Pomegranate

The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree in the family Lythraceae that grows between tall.

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Public Television company of Armenia

Public Television of Armenia (Հայաստանի հանրային հեռուստաընկերություն, 1TV), Hayastani Hanrayin herrustaynkerut’yun; ARMTV or APMTV, is Armenia's public television station that began transmissions in 1956.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a broadcasting organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed".

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Robert Kocharyan

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Robert W. Thomson

Robert William Thomson (born 24 March 1934, Cheam, London UK) is retired Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Sabalan

Sabalan (Persian: سبلان), or Savalan (Azerbaijani: Savalan, ساوالان) is an inactive stratovolcano in the Alborz mountain range and Ardabil Province of northwestern Iran.

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Shirak Province

Shirak (Շիրակ), is a province (marz) of Armenia.

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Shirak State University

Shirak State University named after Mikael Nalbandian (Շիրակի Միքայել Նալբանդյանի անվան պետական համալսարան), is a public university in Gyumri, the capital of Shirak Province, Armenia, opened in 1934.

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Silva Kaputikyan

Silva Kaputikyan (help); 20 January 1919 – 25 August 2006) was an Armenian poet and political activist. One of the best-known Armenian writers of the twentieth century, she is recognized as "the leading poetess of Armenia" and "the grand lady of twentieth century Armenian poetry". Although a member of the Communist Party, she was a noted advocate of Armenian national causes. Her first collection of poems were published in the mid-1940s. By the 1950s she had established herself as a significant literary figure in Soviet Armenia. Besides Armenian she also wrote in Russian and many of her works were translated to other languages. In the later Soviet period she frequently addressed political and other issues.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.

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Talin, Armenia

Talin (Թալին), is a town and urban municipal community in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

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The World Factbook

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

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Turkish language

Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeast Europe (mostly in East and Western Thrace) and 60–65 million native speakers in Western Asia (mostly in Anatolia).

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is defined as a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more.

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University of Bergen

The University of Bergen (Universitetet i Bergen) is a public university located in Bergen, Norway.

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Vahramashen Church

The Vahramashen Church (Վահրամաշեն եկեղեցի), also commonly referred to as Vahramashen Surp Astvatsatsin or the Church of Amberd) was built for Prince Vahram Pahlavuni of the Pahlavuni family. An inscription on the inside lintel of the north portal to the church dates its completion to the year 1026. It sits along the slopes of Mount Aragats in the Aragatsotn province of Armenia, between the fortress of Amberd and near a wall along the promontory with the Arkashian River in the canyon below.

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Victor Ambartsumian

Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (Ви́ктор Амаза́спович Амбарцумя́н; Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան, Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 12 August 1996) was a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yeghishe Tadevosyan

Yeghishe Martirosi Tadevosyan (Եղիշե Թադևոսյան, September 24, 1870, Etchmiadzin — January 22 1936, Tbilisi) was an Armenian painter associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva movements.

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Yerevan

Yerevan (Երևան, sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

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Aragadz, Aragats, Aragats Mountain, Arakadz, Mt Aragats.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Aragats

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