Parpi
Sign in to saveParpi () is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is home to the 5th-century Tsiranavor Church, with 7th- and 10th-century modifications. There is also S. Grigor or S. Grigor Lusavorich (Gregory the Illuminator) Church and the 7th-century (rebuilt 10th-11th century) Targmanchats (Holy Translator) Church located in a medieval-modern cemetery on a hill to the east. Nearby is a cave with a working door, used as a place of refuge between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Vinony's link graph records 135 inbound references to Parpi, and connects out to Aragatsotn Province, Armenia and Michigan.
The entry is geolocated on the map in AM, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Aragatsotn Province.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Parpi
- Settlement.native_name
- Փարպի
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Փարպիի Ս. Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ6.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- S. Grigor Lusavorich Church in Parpi
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Armenia#Aragatsotn
- Settlement.mapsize
- 150px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Armenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Aragatsotn
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ashtarak
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,970
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +5
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.website
- Parpi: official website
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Armenia
- Located in
- Erivansky Uyezd
- Official language
- Armenian
- Population
- 1970
- Area
- 8.92
- Elevation
- 1100
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Official website
- parpi.am
- Image
- Փարպիի Ս. Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ6.JPG
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Parpi () is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is home to the 5th-century Tsiranavor Church, with 7th- and 10th-century modifications. There is also S. Grigor or S. Grigor Lusavorich (Gregory the Illuminator) Church and the 7th-century (rebuilt 10th-11th century) Targmanchats (Holy Translator) Church located in a medieval-modern cemetery on a hill to the east. Nearby is a cave with a working door, used as a place of refuge between the 16th and 18th centuries.
== History == The 5th- to 6th-century Armenian chronicler and historian Ghazar Parpetsi was born at Parpi in AD 442. He is recognized for writing History of Armenia, sometime in the early 6th century. Parpi is known to have had a brief visit during October 1734 by Abraham Kretatsi during the time while he was serving the Catholicos Abraham II. He wrote:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parpi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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