Margara

Coordinates: 40°02′01″N 44°10′26″E / 40.03361°N 44.17389°E / 40.03361; 44.17389

Margara Մարգարա
Margara
Coordinates: 40°02′01″N 44°10′26″E / 40.03361°N 44.17389°E / 40.03361; 44.17389
Country	Armenia
Marz (Province)	Armavir
Population  (2008)
• Total	1,477
Time zone	UTC+4 ( )
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 ( )

Bridge over Arax at Margara in 1925.

Margara (Armenian: Մարգարա, also Romanized as Markara; formerly Margara-Gök) is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. Margara is the closest border crossing to Turkey from Yerevan, though at present the border is closed. Margara has a road bridge across the Arax River to Turkey. The Border Guard Service of Russia patrols the closed border between Armenia and Turkey.

See also[]

• Armavir Province

References[]

• Margara at GEOnet Names Server
• 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. 40; original archived at Archive.org, and current version online on Armeniapedia.org.

External links[]

• Video about the Armenia-Turkey border at Margara by (RFE/RL)

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