Tsovak (Armenian: Ծովակ) is a village in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.

Tsovak Ծովակ
A view of Tsovak
Tsovak Show map of Armenia Tsovak Show map of Gegharkunik
Coordinates: 40°10′58″N 45°38′02″E
Country	Armenia
Province	Gegharkunik
Elevation	1,920 m (6,300 ft)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	2,319
Time zone	UTC+4 (AMT)
Postal code	1612
Tsovak at GEOnet Names Server

Toponymy

The village was previously known as Nerkin Zagalu and Nizhniy Zagalu.

History

The village is the site of a large Iron Age fort atop the hill to the south and west, with an 8th-century BCE cuneiform inscription of Sarduri II cut into the stone at the north edge of the fortification.[2]

Gallery

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  Khachkars in Tsovak
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  Tsovak castle
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  Yot Axper chapel
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  Khachkar in Yot Axper chapel
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  Yot Axper chapel

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tsovak.

• World Gazeteer: Armenia^{[dead link]} – World-Gazetteer.com
• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia
• Brady Kiesling, Rediscovering Armenia, p. 47; original archived at Archive.org, and current version online on Armeniapedia.org.

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[ru] Цовак