Verin Artashat
village in Ararat Province of Armenia
Verin Artashat (Armenian: Վերին Արտաշատ) is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It sits adjacent to the ruins of the ancient city of Dvin.
“Verin Artashat” enters the record as village in Ararat Province of Armenia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Verin, Artashat and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Verin Artashat” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Verin, Artashat and village provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2634738. Authority coordinates are 40.001, 44.585. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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.
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Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Verin Artashat” 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.