Avshar, Ararat

Coordinates: 39°50′26″N 44°41′01″E / 39.84056°N 44.68361°E / 39.84056; 44.68361

Avshar Ավշար
Avshar
Coordinates: 39°50′26″N 44°41′01″E / 39.84056°N 44.68361°E / 39.84056; 44.68361
Country	Armenia
Province	Ararat
Population  (2010)
• Total	5,116

Avshar (Armenian: Ավշար) is a major village in the Ararat Province of Armenia. It hosted the 1993 and 1995 CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia led by Archbishop Hovnan Derderian and Ronald Alepian.

Most of the population descends from Western Armenian Refugees from Van and Moush.

See also[]

• Ararat Province

References[]

• Avshar, Ararat at GEOnet Names Server
• World Gazeteer: Armenia^{[dead link]} – World-Gazetteer.com
• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census

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