Geghi ( hy, Գեղի) is a village in the
Kajaran Municipality of the
Syunik Province in
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...
.
History
The village had 570 inhabitants in 1959, 932 in 1970 and 1,115 inhabitants in 1979.
[ T. Kh. Hakobyan, St. T. Melik-Bakhshyan, H. Kh. Barseghyan ''«Երևան»'' (Yerevan). Dictionary of Toponymy of Armenia and Adjacent Territories. vol. v. Yerevan, Armenia: Yerevan State University 1986. p.909]
Population
The
Statistical Committee of Armenia
The Statistical Committee of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի վիճակագրական կոմիտե) is the national statistical agency of Armenia.
History
The statistical institution started its main activities on 7 January 1922 and was ...
reported the community's population as 172 at the 2011 Armenian census,
up from 138 in 2010, but down from 227 at the 2001 census.
Municipal administration
Geghi was previously a community which included the villages of Geghi,
Geghavank,
Kard
A kard ( fa, کارد, kārd, knife) is the equivalent in the Persian language for knife.
In the specialist jargon, Kard is considered a type of knife found in the Persianate societies like Persia, Turkey, Armenia and all the way to India. Most ...
,
Kitsk,
Verin Geghavank
Verin Geghavank ( hy, Վերին Գեղավանք) is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province of Armenia.
Population
Statistical Committee of Armenia
The Statistical Committee of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստա ...
and
Karut, until the June 2017 administrative and territorial reforms, when the village became a part of the
Kajaran Municipality.
Syunik Province communities
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References
Populated places in Syunik Province
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