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Khoronk

village in Armavir Province of Armenia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ2221709
Source-derived summary

Khoronk (Armenian: Խորոնք, also Romanized as Khoronq; formerly, Lenugi, Nizhniy Aylanlu, Nerkin Aylanlu, and Lenughi) is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The town's church dates to 1880.

References

Khoronk at GEOnet Names Server

World Gazeteer: Armenia – World-Gazetteer.com

Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia

Kiesling, Brady (June 2000). Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia (PDF). Yerevan: Mattit. ISBN 9994101218. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2021.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Khoronk” is village in Armavir Province of Armenia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Khoronk, village and Armavir, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880, 2001, 2000, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Khoronk, village and Armavir is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Armavir Province of Armenia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2221709. Authority coordinates are 40.136, 44.244. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1880, 2001, 2000 and 2021.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Khoronk”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Khoronk primary sources, Khoronk archive and Khoronk research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Khoronk”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Khoronk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.