Beniamin

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Beniamin
Բենիամին
Chalovkhan
community
Beniamin 32.JPG
Beniamin is located in Armenia
Beniamin
Beniamin
Coordinates: 40°41′N 43°51′E / 40.683°N 43.850°E / 40.683; 43.850Coordinates: 40°41′N 43°51′E / 40.683°N 43.850°E / 40.683; 43.850
Country Armenia
Marz (Province)Shirak
Named forBeniamin Galstian
Elevation
1,540 m (5,050 ft)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total745
Time zoneUTC+4 ( )
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 ( )
Beniamin at GEOnet Names Server

Beniamin (Armenian: Բենիամին) is a village and rural community (municipality) in the Shirak Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in 1945 in honor of , a World War II general and native of the town.[1] According to Ghevont Alishan, the old name of the village is "Chlofkhan or Chalovkhan", and was founded in 1828-1830 in the territory of the historical city of Draskhanakert.[2] The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population was 745 in 2010,[3] up from 702 at the 2001 census.[4]

Population[]

Population per years is the following.[5]

Year 1831[6] 1873[6] 1897 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2004 2014
Pop. 109 347 561 442 604 546 531 500 751 702 724 750

Historical and cultural structures[]

"Tukh Manuk" chapel and Zham church are located in Beniamin.[7]

Education[]

There is a school in the village, where, in addition to the school curriculum, children are involved in extracurricular programs: art and craft groups, debate club, healthy lifestyle seminars.

With the efforts of the Children of Armenia Fund, trainings are being carried out for local medical workers.

Gallery[]

  • "Tukh Manuk" chapel in Beniamin village of Armenia

    "Tukh Manuk" chapel

  • Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War, Beniamin, Armenia

    Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War

  • Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War, Beniamin, Armenia

    Monument in the honor of Armenians who fought in the Great Patriotic War

  • Monument to General Major Benjamin Hovhannes Galstyan, Hero of the Soviet Union, Beniamin, Armenia

    Monument to General Major Benjamin Hovhannes Galstyan, Hero of the Soviet Union

  • Beniamin school, Armenia

    Beniamin school

  • Beniamin church (Zham), 1871, Armenia

    Beniamin church (Zham), 1871

References[]

  1. ^ Kiesling, Rediscovering Armenia, p. 76, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website Archived June 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Alishan, Ghevont (1881). Shirak (in Armenian). Venice.
  3. ^ "Marzes of Armenia and Yerevan City in Figures, 2010" (PDF). Statistical Committee of Armenia.
  4. ^ Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia
  5. ^ Հայաստանի Հանրապետության բնակավայրերի բառարան [Republic of Armenia settlements dictionary] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia. 2008. p. 44. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Korkotyan, Zaven (1932). Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) [The population of Soviet Armenia in the last century (1831-1931)] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Pethrat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2022.
  7. ^ hushardzantest. "ԲԵՆԻԱՄԻՆ". Պատմամշակութային արգելոց-թանգարանների և պատմական միջավայրի պահպանության ծառայության (in Amharic). Retrieved 2022-08-20.


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