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Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-04-11): The territory of the Ararat province is divided into two parts: plain and mountainous. The plain stretches from the Hrazdan River to the state border of the Republic of Armenia at an altitude of 10-15 km. Most of the mountainous part of the province is occupied by the slopes of Geghama mountains, Urts and Yeranos mountains. Here is the forest, which was founded by the Armenian king Khosrov Kotak in the IV century. Nowadays it is Khosrov reserve. [...] One of the features of the province is the territorial advantage over all other provinces. Gegharkunik province can involve Ararat, Armavir and Kotayk provinces fully. It borders with the provinces of Tavush, Kotayk, Ararat, Vayots dzor of the RA, also has an external border with Azerbaijan and Republic of Artsakh. Administrative center is Gavar. Other cities are Chambarak, Martuni, Sevan, Vardenis. [...] The pearl of Gegharkunik is Lake Sevan, located at an altitude of 1900 meters above sea level. It is the second in size high-altitude freshwater lake on earth after Lake Titicaca in South America. 28 large and small streams flow into the lake, but only Hrazdan originates.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-01-01): Gegharkunik (Armenian: Գեղարքունիք, Armenian pronunciation: [ɡɛʁɑɾkʰuˈnikʰ]) is a province (marz) of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is Gavar. Gegharkunik Province is located at the eastern part of Armenia, bordering Azerbaijan. It includes the exclave of Artsvashen, which has been under Azerbaijani occupation since the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. With an area of 5,348 km2 (2,065 sq mi), Gegharkunik is the largest province in Armenia. However, approximately 24% or 1,278 km2 (493 sq mi) of its territory is covered by Lake Sevan, the largest lake in the South Caucasus and a major tourist attraction of the region.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Gegharkunik is one of Armenia’s provinces that Azerbaijan calls "Western Azerbaijan". Azerbaijan attacked the region in two main directions - Sotk and Verin Shorzha. The region is one of the vital parts of the country; it is where Lake Sevan is situated, one of the main sights and the largest freshwater lake in the landlocked country. Before the war in 2020, the de facto border between Armenia’s Gegharkunik province and Azerbaijan was shorter. But as a result of the war, the Kelbajar region was handed over to Azerbaijan, and the border is now approximately 50 kilometres longer in the direction of Vardenis. The border halved a gold mine that was located right on the administrative border of Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, the Sotk gold mine, and now the other half of the mine is in the Azerbaijani part. After the last events, the villagers’ sense of safety has diminished. Surrounded by mountains, they are able to distinguish between Armenian and Azerbaijani hills and they are aware of the source of danger.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-01): Gegharkunik Region is situated in the eastern part of RA. In the eastern part the region has borders with Azerbaijan. Theregion includes the territories of Gavar, Chambarak, Martuni, Sevan and Vardenis. The Administrative centre is Gavar. The territory is 5348 km2, but only 240.033 ha are useful for agriculture. Gegharkunik is the largest region in Armenia, it occupies th 18% of the whole territory. The region includes 5 cities- Gavar, Chambarak, Martuni, Sevan and Vardenis and 87 villages. [...] Gegharkunik Region is characterized with long sunny hours.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2014-06-20): Gegharkunik (Armenian: Գեղարքունիք, Armenian pronunciation: is a province (marz) of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Gavar. Gegharkunik Province is located at the eastern part of Armenia, bordering Azerbaijan and the Shahumyan Region of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. With an area of 5,348 km², Gegharkunik is the largest province in Armenia. However, approximately 1,278 km² of its territory is covered by Lake Sevan, the largest lake in the Caucasus and a major tourist attraction of the region. [...] Gegharkunik Province is situated at the east of modern-day Armenia, surrounding the Lake Sevan. Within the Republic of Armenia, it has borders with Tavush Province, Kotayk and Ararat provinces from the west and Vayots Dzor Province from the south. TheDashkasan and Gadabay districts of Azerbaijan, and the Shahumyan Region of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic form the eastern border of the province.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2011-01-01): Gegharkunik is the largest province in Armenia. The capital and largest city is the town of Gavar. Most of the territory of the region (1,278 km2) is covered by Lake Sevan, the largest lake in Transcaucasia and the region's major tourist attraction. The name of Gegharkunik is derived from the name of Gegham, the 5th king of the Haykazuni Dynasty and one of the descendants of the legendary forefather of the Armenian nation Hayk. The Gegham mountains and the Lake of Gegham (currently known as Lake Sevan) were also named after Gegham. [...] According to the calculations of 2011, the population of the Gegharkunik region is 235 075 people. Besides Armenians, Yazidis, Kurds, and Russians live here.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-01-01): This region includes all the territories around Lake Sevan, which is the third largest freshwater alpine lake in the world. The area around the lake is one of the busiest recreation areas in Armenia and a popular place for Armenians and tourists to visit. Gegharkunik is connected to the Vayots Dzor region by the Selim mountain pass—the site of Orbelian’s 14th-century caravanserai, which served as an inn for Silk Road travelers through Armenia. The villages in Gegharkunik, and particularly in the Gavar district, still have traditional houses with hazarashen roofs. The recreational areas of Lake Sevan and neighboring villages contain cozy guesthouses and restaurants where you may try typical local dishes, such as the whitefish and trout of Lake Sevan, Gavar kufta, arishta, harissa, salads and pan-fries of local edible plants collected from the mountains, and grilled and fried potatoes. Two special dishes are the tolma made of hemp puree and wheat, and fish kapama, which is cooked with thyme and tomato sauce. Halva with pokhindz and honey, as well as Gavar pakhlava, which is famous throughout Armenia, are a few favorite sweets. Located on the bank of Lake Sevan, the Bronze Age fortress-town Lchashen is where archeologists found a rare four-wheeled wooden cart dating back to several millennia. In the Geghama Mountains you may see petroglyphs and vishapakar or dragon-stone monuments left by ancient people. Enthusiasts of medieval architecture may wish to visit the tenth-century Sevanavank, ninth-century Hayravank, and the late-medieval cemetery of Noratus with its high-art khachkars and carved tombstones.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2004-02-01): Except for so many building sites in Yerevan, there is no place that shows some sign of economic revival in Armenia more than the republic's primary tourist destination, the jewel of the country, and certainly of the Gegharkunik province. [...] On the northwestern edge of Gegharkunik province, progress has meant isolation for the villages of Tsovaghyugh and Semyenovka. [...] Gegharkunik, like all Armenian regions these days, tries to revive and restore what they once had, a secure life. But, just as individual republics now struggle, the breakup of the centralized economy and industry of the Soviet regime resulted in an inability of separate regions to survive alone.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2001-01-01): Marz of Gegharkunik, Armenia [...] The marz of Gegharkunik (Gegharkunik Province) is located in the eastern part of Armenia at the foot of the Gegam Mountains. It is one of the largest regions of the country. The beautiful Lake Sevan is hidden high in the mountains. In antiquity it was called the Geghama Sea. Lake Sevan's the territory equals one quarter of the marz and is its main natural landmark. Other beauties of nature are the landscapes of the Geghama and the Vardenis Mountains. There are lots of volcanic tops there. Fireless volcanoes Adzhaak (3597.3 m above sea level) and Armagan (2829 m) whose craters now host beautiful high-mountainous lakes are especially interesting. On the rocks near Azhdahak Mount many petroglyphs with scenes of hunting and celestial bodies have been found. In 2009 a sanctuary was erected on the top of the Armagan volcano, on the site of the ancient buildings. [...] In Gegharkunik marz you will find fortresses, castles, ancient settlements, and cuneiform writings of pre-Urartu and Urartu periods. But the main monuments of Gegharkunik are Sevanavank Monastery founded in 874 on the north-west shore of the Lake Sevan; the largest medival age khachkars’ cemetery Noraduz on the territory of modern Armenia on the shore of the lake (X-XVII centuries); and the monastery complex Hayravank (IX-XIII centuries.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-07-20): Its capital is Gavar. Gegharkunik was named after Gegham. Gegham was a Haykazuni King and the fifth generation after Hayk. Geghama mountains and Geghama lake, now called Lake Sevan, were named after Gegham. Gegharkunik Province is in the east of Armenia. It borders Azerbaijan. It is the largest province in Armenia. Much of the land is covered by Lake Sevan. There are 5 towns and 87 rural communities. References [change | change source]- ↑ Names of Armenia 3 new provincial governors are known - ↑ Gegharkunik population, 2011 census - ↑ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Exercise increased caution in Armenia due to areas of armed conflict. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. [...] Read the country information page for additional information on travel to Armenia. If you decide to travel to Armenia:
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2008-08-05): The territory of the Republic of Armenia is composed of ten marzes (regions) and Yerevan city which is governed by the law on local self-government in the city of Yerevan. Public administration in the marzes is governed by RA President’s decree "On public administration in the marzes of the Republic of Armenia" and other legal acts. [...] Address: 4 Vardges Petrosyan, Ashtarak City [...] Gegharkunik Marz, Marz Center-Gavar, Gegharkunik Regional Administration
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-10-19): Caption: Khaltur Oseyan’s family receive animal feed in Martuni in Gegharkunik province, Armenia. [...] Caption: Arevik Arzumanyan (right) and her daughter Qristine Avetisyan (left) with the head of the Gegharkunik province youth center, where families pick up emergency supplies. Photo: © IOM Armenia/2021/Bisharyan "When we arrived in Armenia, we found refuge in the Gegharkunik province. I thought it was just for a short period of time. Now I know that we lost our home forever," says Arevik.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-01-19): Since then, tensions have remained high as the Azerbaijani military continues to remain on Armenian territory and as the CSTO appears to be dragging its feet. There have been reports of skirmishes leaving several Armenian soldiers wounded. As a result of a shootout on May 25, an Armenian junior sergeant was killed by Azerbaijani gunfire in Upper Shorzha in the Gegharkunik region. According to Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Edvard Asryan, there are approximately 1000 Azerbaijani soldiers on Armenian territory. [...] Armenia’s Defense Ministry issued a statement that six Armenian servicemen were surrounded and captured by Azerbaijani forces in the border area of Gegharkunik region in the early morning hours of May 27. According to the Ministry, the soldiers were carrying out engineering work. The statement went on to say that necessary measures are being taken to return the captured soldiers. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry had claimed earlier that the Armenian servicemen had crossed into Azerbaijan on a special mission, which Armenia’s Ministry denied, stating that the captured servicemen were in Armenian territory. [...] The Azerbaijani military units, which have infiltrated the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia since May 12, continue their provocative actions in a number of directions. As a result of one of them, in the early morning of May 27, in the bordering area of Gegharkunik region of the Republic of Armenia, while carrying out engineering works in the guarding sector of N military unit of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, six servicemen have been surrounded and captured by the servicemen of armed forces of Azerbaijan.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-09-16): Speaking in parliament Friday, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at least 135 Armenian troops were killed in the fighting. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Friday it had lost 77. Edvard Asryan, the chief of the General Staff of the Armenian armed forces, told foreign ambassadors in Yerevan that Azerbaijani forces had forged 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) into Armenian territory near the town of Jermuk, a spa resort in southern Armenia. READ MORE: At U.N. court, Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of ethnic hatred Asryan said the Azerbaijani troops also went 1-2 kilometers (1 mile) into Armenian territory near the villages of Nerkin Hand in Syunik province and Shorja in Gegharkunik province. He noted that the Azerbaijani forces have remained in those areas. The ex-Soviet countries have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994. During a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. More than 6,700 people died in the fighting, which ended with a Russia-brokered peace agreement.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-02-27): Clearance operations of mine impacted areas were initiated in 2014. Since 2014, an area of 270,119 m2 has been cleared, and an additional area of 363,997 m2 has been cleared through non-technical (NTS) and technical (TS) surveys in Syunik province. In Gegharkunik province, an area of 46,882 m2 has been cleared through NTS and TS. [...] The non-technical survey conducted in 2012-2013 addressed the issue of mine and EO contamination in Armenia, a result from the Armenian-Azerbaijani armed conflict dating back to 1998-1994. During the latest escalation of the armed conflict over Nagorno-Karabagh, the bordering territory of Armenia, particularly the provinces of Syunik and Gegharkunik, were bombed. Aerial and missile attacks targeted many civilian infrastructures causing new contamination of areas with cluster munitions. It should be noted that the latest armed conflict greatly changed the scale and the type of contamination. The post-conflict situation has urged a need for planning and conducting non-technical and technical surveys to identify the extent of EO contamination in the territory of the RoA.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-06-29): And yet Chambarak is located in the Gegharkunik province, one of the regions in Armenia most exposed to climate-induced risks and hazards, including late spring frost, more powerful hailstorms and windstorms, and more severe mudflows. [...] As part of the same initiative funded by Japan, UNDP has helped install 11 modernized automatic meteorological stations in Armenia, including five in the Gegharkunik province. [...] The people in the Gegharkunik province are now better prepared for climate impacts, thanks to these interventions. But as the climate crisis continues to unfold, scaling-up adaptation and resilience measures, alongside mitigation, and ensuring they are available to vulnerable groups around the world, will become ever more crucial.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-06-23): GYUMRI, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS. Talks are underway with the Russian side over the deployment of Russian border guards in Armenia’s Gegharkunik province, Armenian caretaker deputy prime minister Tigran Avinyan said during a briefing in Gyumri. He, however, noted that this can happen only in case of the complete withdrawal of Azerbaijani troops from Armenia’s territory. [...] "The Azerbaijani armed forces must pull back from Armenia’s sovereign territory, and we will spare no efforts for this. There is a discussion with the Russian side, but the Russian peacekeepers will be deployed only when the Azerbaijani forces pull back", he said.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-12-01): Ms. Natia Natsvlishvili, UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia, H.E. Sergei Kopyrkin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Armenia, Mr. Vache Terteryan, Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia, Ms. Zhanna Andreasyan, Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Armenia, and Mr. Karen Sargsyan, Governor of Gegharkunik region, had opening remarks at the ceremony. [...] The guests proceeded to Artsvakar settlement, Gegharkunik region, to attend the official opening ceremony of Mikayelyan Cheese Cellar supported by UNDP "Integrated Rural Tourism Development" (IRTD) project, funded by the Russian Federation and implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. [...] The event was attended by Ms. Natia Natsvlishvili, UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia, H.E. Sergei Kopyrkin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Armenia, Mr. Vache Terteryan, Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia, and Mr. Karen Sargsyan, Governor of Gegharkunik region.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Statement of MFA of Armenia on the actions of Azerbaijan’s armed forces in the direction of Gegharkunik region of Armenia 01 September, 2023On September 1, the armed forces of Azerbaijan opened fire on the positions of the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia located in the area of Sotk and Norabak in the Gegharkunik region, which resulted in casualties of 3 killed and 2 wounded. Azerbaijan’s armed forces also used mortars and UAVs. [...] The encroachments against the territorial integrity of Armenia, combined with the statements and bellicose rhetoric regularly made by the Azerbaijani side on various levels as well as channeled through various state media, are the continuation of Baku's aggressive policy aimed at settling existing problems and imposing its own will through the use of force and the threat of use of force. [...] We strongly condemn this kind of aggressive behavior of Azerbaijan, which is accompanied by the factual siege of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh through the 8-month-long illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor, and can seriously disrupt the efforts aimed at establishing stability and lasting peace in the region. The Republic of Armenia reaffirms its principled position that all units of Azerbaijan’s armed forces must be withdrawn from the sovereign territory of Armenia.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-26): The Armenian Defense Ministry said the serviceman was killed on May 25 "as a result of a shoot-out that followed the opening of fire by Azerbaijani troops" in Armenia's Gegharkunik district. It said the situation was now "calm" after the skirmish. [...] Earlier this month, Armenia accused Azerbaijani troops of crossing several kilometers into its Syunik and Gegharkunik provinces and trying to stake a claim to territory. Azerbaijan insisted that its troops did not cross into Armenia and simply took up positions on the Azerbaijani side of the frontier that were not accessible in winter months. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since the early 1990s.
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-11-19): But with Azerbaijan’s military victory and the recapturing of almost all of its lost territories, the border areas between Armenia’s Syunik and Gegharkunik provinces, and Azerbaijan’s newly established East Zangezur region have become militarised front lines. [...] Syunik Province separates Azerbaijan from its exclave, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, in some places by less than 40km (25 miles). [...] "The Azerbaijan strategic goal is to establish at least de facto control over Syunik province," says Benyamin Poghosyan, a Yerevan-based political scientist. "President Aliyev of Azerbaijan has stated many times publicly that Syunik province artificially separates the Turkic world spanning from Istanbul to Kazakhstan."
Claim: Gegharkunik province is a territory of Armenia (Gegharkunik province, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-02-09): Nature-based solutions help reduce risk to climate hazards in Armenia According to the latest official figures, Armenia has experienced a 1.2° C rise in average temperatures and a 20 percent increase in extreme weather events over the last century. As a landlocked country with complex mountainous territory and vulnerable agricultural regions, climate change poses a serious threat to communities and livelihoods across the country. The Gegharkunik province is one of the regions in Armenia most exposed to climate-induced risks and hazards, including spring-frost, hailstorms, winds, drought, and mudflow. Mudflow is particularly threatening. The mudflow channels are in poor condition, filled with mud and debris throughout the year, causing severe problems during the spring rain season and after winter snowmelt in the nearby mountains.