Parpi

Parpi Փարպի
Parpi
Coordinates: 40°19′46″N 44°18′26″E
Country	Armenia
Marz (Province)	Aragatsotn
Population (2008)
• Total	2,049
Time zone	(UTC+4)
• Summer (DST)	(UTC+5)

Parpi (Armenian: Փարպի, also Romanized as P’arpi) is a village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. Within the village is a 5th century church. The 5th to 6th century Armenian chronicler and historian Ghazar Parpetsi was born at Parpi. He is most prominent for writing a history of Armenia, History of Armenia, sometime in the early sixth century.

Parpi is known to have had a brief visit during October 1734 by Abraham Kretatsi during the time while he was serving the Catholicos Abraham II. He wrote, "The next day, at my request, we went to Parpi and from there to Karbi, where we spent the night at the residences of Paron Khachatur and Paron Ohazar."

The village is also mentioned in a 13th century inscription on the southern wall of the Katoghike Church of the Astvatsnkal Monastery built between the 5th-13th c. It reads,

"By the grace and mercy of God, I Kurd, Prince of Princes, son of the great Vache, and my wife Khorishah, daughter of Marzpan, built the Holy Katoghike for the memory of our souls. We have decorated it with every kind of precious ornament and offered the garden bought by us in Parpi, virgin land in Oshakan, a garden in Karbi, a villager (?), and three hostels, in the year 693/AD 1244."

References

• Parpi at GEOnet Names Server
• World Gazeteer: Armenia – World-Gazetteer.com
• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census

Bibliography

• Hacikyan, Agop J. (2005), The Heritage of Armenian Literature, Vol. 3: From the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times, Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0814332218 
• Kiesling, Brady (2005), Rediscovering Armenia: Guide, Yerevan, Armenia: Matit Graphic Design Studio 
• Kiesling, Rediscoving Armenia, pp. 15, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website