Aparan

Aparan
Aparan
	Panorama of Aparan with Mount Aragats on the right
	; Aparan
	Coordinates: 40°35′20.81″N 44°21′25.97″E / 40.5891139°N 44.3572139°ECoordinates: 40°35′20.81″N 44°21′25.97″E / 40.5891139°N 44.3572139°E
Country	Armenia
Marz	Aragatsotn
Elevation	1,900 m (6,234 ft)
	Population (2009)
- Total	6,158
Time zone	GMT (UTC+4)

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Aparan (Armenian: Ապարան, also known as Abaran; until 1935, Bash Aparan; formerly, Aparanbol, Aparan Verin, Aparanpol, Abaran Verin, P’araznavert, K’asakh, Kasagh, and K’asagh) is a town in Armenia, located in the Aragatsotn province, about 50 kilometers north-north-west of Yerevan. It has a mixed population of Armenians and Kurds, numbering 5,711 as of the 2001 census.^[1]. The city was called Bash Aparan (Բաշ Ապարան; also Romanized as Bash Abaran, Pash Aparan, and Dash Abaron) until 1935. The inhabitants of Aparan, are known as Aparantsi (Ապարանցի).

[edit] Geography

Aparan is located on Armenia's main north-south road which connects the Armenian capital Yerevan with the second largest city, Vanadzor, and to Georgia and its capital Tbilisi.

[edit] History

The city was the site of an important Battle of Bash Abaran against the Turkish army on May 21, 1918 during the Turkish-Armenian War, when the Turkish invasion of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Armenia was turned around. An impressive monument to the battle was erected just north of town. Aparan was listed by the geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century as Kasagh.