Vaghashen

Place in Gegharkunik, Armenia

Vaghashen Վաղաշեն
St. Astvatsatsin Church in Vaghashen
40°08′06″N 45°19′44″E / 40.13500°N 45.32889°E / 40.13500; 45.32889
Country	Armenia
Province	Gegharkunik
Municipality	Martuni
Elevation	1,956 m (6,417 ft)
Population (2011)^[1]
• Total	4,267
Time zone	UTC+4 (AMT)
Postal code	1416
Vaghashen at GEOnet Names Server

Vaghashen (Armenian: Վաղաշեն) is a village in the Martuni Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.

Toponymy

The village was known as Avdalagalu or Abdalaghalu until 1935.

There are two 16th-century churches in the village, and nearby are the ruins of Kyurdi Kogh and Aloyi Kogh cyclopean forts.^[2]

^ Statistical Committee of Armenia. "The results of the 2011 Population Census of Armenia" (PDF).
^ Kiesling, Brady; Kojian, Raffi (2005). Rediscovering Armenia: Guide (2nd ed.). Yerevan: Matit Graphic Design Studio. p. 80. ISBN 99941-0-121-8.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vaghashen.

World Gazeteer: Armenia^{[dead link]} – World-Gazetteer.com
Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia
Kiesling, Brady (June 2000). Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 November 2021.