Tsaghkashen, Gegharkunik

Coordinates: 40°18′17″N 45°03′19″E / 40.30472°N 45.05528°E / 40.30472; 45.05528

Tsaghkashen
Ծաղկաշեն
Tsaghkashen
Ծաղկաշեն
Coordinates: 40°18′17″N 45°03′19″E / 40.30472°N 45.05528°E / 40.30472; 45.05528
Country Armenia
Marz (Province) Gegharkunik
Population (2001)
  Total 551
Time zone   (UTC+4)
  Summer (DST)   (UTC+5)

Tsaghkashen (Armenian: Ծաղկաշեն; also Romanized as Tsakhkashen and Tsaghkachen; formerly Kyarimkend) is a village in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, founded in 1859. The village church dedicated to S. Hovhannes dates to the 9th-10th century.

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