Photos from Armenia
լուսանկարներ Հայաստան
Фотографии из Армении
The native Armenian name for the country is Hayk (from the legendary patriarch of the Armenians and a great-great-grandson of Noah). The name in the Middle Ages was extended to Hayastan (Armenian: Հայաստան), by addition of the Iranian suffix -stan (land). The name Armenia derives from the name of Aram, a lineal descendent of the patriarch Hayk. Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat. |
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Alaverdi bus station
Sevanavank Monastery on the shore of Lake Sevan
Yerevan and Mount Ararat
Yerevan : statue of Mother Armenia ("Mayr Hayastan)"
(more photos with stamps)
(more photos of statues)
Yerevan central square (Hanrapetutyan Hraparak) at night
(more night photos and reflection photos)
Yerevan : СССР ресторан
Dinner with fellow travellers in the soviet themed restaurant
Our new Politburo discussed this slogan :
"we make soviet miniskirts higher than the world standards"
Basalt rock formation near Garni
(I saw some other such basalt columns in California)
Geghard Monastery : chapel carved out of the cliffside
Lake Spendaryan near Vorotan pass
Tatev Monastery
Meghri (the mountains at the back are in Iran)
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Former USSR
© Denis LeGourriérec
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