🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Sanahin Monastery — Lori Bridge Sister
Bagratid (966 Surb Astvatsatsin 928–944 Blessing; 1063 library; 1181 gavit Kariannik) · Armenian Bagratid (Kurikyan Lori kingdom)
Sanahin UNESCO 1996 sister to Haghpat.
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95 places in the atlas, 1 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid (966 Surb Astvatsatsin 928–944 Blessing; 1063 library; 1181 gavit Kariannik) · Armenian Bagratid (Kurikyan Lori kingdom)
Sanahin UNESCO 1996 sister to Haghpat.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early medieval Bagratid (9th c. main 851? Surb Astvatsatsin 9th) · Bagratid Siunik princes 9th c.
Makenyats 9th c. excavated.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes
Metsamor Fortress Citadel North Bastion — Eastern Outlier in Armavir Province, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid (874 Princess Mariam Bagratuni Ashot I's daughter exile dedication 3 churches on island fortress after Arab rule) · Armenian Bagratid Mariam (sister of Ashot I) 874 peninsular rock fortress
Sevan 874 Mariam excavated by Arakelyan, island fort peninsula after 1930s hydropower drawdown.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Medieval (9th c. church St Paul-Peter 895–906; 11th c. Surb Astvatsatsin; Gavazan column 895) · Armenian Syunik princes medieval scriptorium (14th c. Tatev University 1373–1435)
Tatev Wings tram 5.7 km 2010, excavated Soviet, university 1373 Tatev School of lord.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Bagratid (7th c. church; 10th c. Vahram Paphlavuni castle 1026; Seljuk captured 1236) · Bagratid Pahlavuni princes (Vahram) with church 1026 and bath
Amberd excavated by Harutyunyan 1963–64, Pahlavuni family castle 1026.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early Medieval (643–652 CE Catholicos Nerses III) · Armenian early Christian, Byzantine influence tetraconch
Zvartnots excavated by Toramanian 1901, UNESCO 2000 as Ejmiadzin.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Mural Hall Temple 30 — Armenia Region 6 in Armenia Region 6, Armenia is a Iron Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Medieval (Main 1215 CE; gavit 1225; rock-cut 1263 Proshian tomb) · Armenian medieval Proshian princes (Zakarian dynasty)
Geghard UNESCO 2000, Proshian cave church 1283 with stalactite.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Earthwork
Bronze Age (1500 BCE cyclopean) reused 19th Molokan · Bronze Age cyclopean → Molokan settlers 1920
Harich cyclopean.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Harbour Mole Submerged Temple 116 — Armenia Region 8 in Armenia Region 8, Armenia is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early Christian Armenian (301–650 CE) · Early Armenian Apostolic; Urartian–Hellenistic pagan predecessor
301 CE Gregory the Illuminator's cathedral over Tir temple — world's oldest state church, Hripsime 618 tetraconch.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes
Metsamor Fortress Citadel North Bastion — Southern Extension in Armavir Province, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes
Metsamor Fortress Citadel North Bastion — Northern Annex in Armavir Province, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Northern Annex in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I · Late Chalcolithic Syunik-Areni, Kura-Araxes early
Upper chamber 12 m above Areni-1 winery cave with Chalcolithic lattice petroglyphs.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Late Antiquity to Medieval (4th–13th century; peak 7th–10th) · Arsacid Armenia → Sasanian marzpan → Arab Dabil emirate → Bagratuni → Seljuk
100 ha medieval Silk Road capital — trilobed palace, glazed-market vault and ceramic aqueduct.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Armenian Christianity world first state church (301–303 CE Gregory original wooden; 480 Vahan, 618 Komitas stone; 1654–58 tiers) · Armenian Apostolic Mother See (Gregory the Illuminator foundation 301 CE)
Ejmiatsin excavated by Mnatsakanyan, oldest cathedral-state 301 foundation over fire temple.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Zakarian (1196 Gergol by Mkhitar Gosh; Surb Astvatsatsin 1191–96 with gavit 1203) · Zakarian medieval university (Mkhitar Gosh 1130–1213 law Datastanagirk code author, 13th c. Goshavank school)
Goshavank excavated Soviet, Mkhitar Gosh 1196 law code university, lace khachkar famous.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Urartian 776 BCE to Orontid Hellenistic (to 2nd c. BCE) · Urartu → Orontid Armenia → Hellenistic
Two citadels (D-A Mound): Argishti I fortress Argishtikhinili built atop Metsamor EB hill, rock-cut canal from Araxes still visible, later Hellenistic wall with Aramaic ostraca of Erivan, mythic…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early Medieval (Odzun St Astvatsatsin c. 6th–8th c. with 5th c. core; Catholicos Hovhannes Odzunetsi 717–728) · Early Armenian basilica hall church (Hall-type) with U-thin altar
Odzun church preserved 6th–8th, Hovhannes Odzunetsi catholicos 717 origin.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Pahlavuni-Bagratid (11th c. St Gregory 1033 Prince Grigor Magistros, Katoghike 1201) · Pahlavuni princes (Grigor Magistros founder 1033 including 12th c. Zakarian addition)
Kecharis excavated by Soviet, Pahlavuni 1033 Prince Grigor Magistros.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Hillfort Rampart Temple 93 — Armenia Region 9 in Armenia Region 9, Armenia is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
