Nerkin Sasunashen
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Coordinates: 40°21′43″N 43°58′58″E / 40.36194°N 43.98278°E
| Nerkin Sasunashen Ներքին Սասունաշեն |
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 Nerkin Sasunashen
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| Coordinates: 40°21′43″N 43°58′58″E / 40.36194°N 43.98278°E | |
| Country | Armenia |
| Marz (Province) | Aragatsotn |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 999 |
| Time zone | (UTC+4) |
| • Summer (DST) | (UTC+5) |
Nerkin Sasunashen (Armenian: Ներքին Սասունաշեն, also Romanized as Nerk’in Sasunashen, Nerqin Sasunashen and Nerkin Sasnashen; formerly, Nizhniy Karakoymaz, Nerkin Karakoymaz, Karakoymaz, and Gharagonmaz) is a town in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. The town has the foundations of a 7th century monastery. The town also contains a granite stele marking the crash site of a United States Air Force C-130 shot down by Soviet MiGs on September 2, 1958, in which 17 US personnel were lost.
[edit] References
- Nerkin Sasunashen at GEOnet Names Server
- Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census
- Kiesling, Rediscoving Armenia, p. 18, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website
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