Balahovit
Balahovit is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
Balahovit is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. The majority of the early settlers of the village immigrated in 1828-29 from Khoy and Salmast in present-day Iran, while some of the immigrants came from Bulankh. It was renamed Balahovit in 1968 at the request of an Armenian-American group, after one of the eight cantons (gavar) of Sophene in Greater Armenia, of the same name. The community has a school, house of culture, and a first aid station, as well as the site of Yerevan Veterinary Institute's experimental station. Balahovit had a kindergarten, but it was closed in July 2004 due to the deteriorating conditions of the educational facility. The local economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, based primarily on grain farming, orchard cultivation, and cattle-breeding. Balahovit has a small minority of Kurds and Russians.
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Worth seeing in and around Balahovit
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Abovyan City Stadium
Vahagn Tumasyan Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Abovyan, Armenia.
3.1 km · soccer stadium in Armenia · Wikipedia - 02Ptghnavank
Ptghnavank or Ptghni church is located in the village of Ptghni in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
1.6 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia - 03Saint John the Baptist Church
Saint John the Baptist Church is a monumental Armenian Apostolic church in the town of Abovyan, Kotayk Province, Armenia.
3.4 km · church building in Abovyan, Armenia · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Balahovit
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 21 km · Shirak (LWN), 84 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 139 km
- Gyumri → Balahovit88 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · $10–14
- Nakhchivan → BalahovitTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ganja → Balahovit156 km · quickest by road, 8h 51m · $24–34
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No local-transport research exists yet for Balahovit
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balahovit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou may be denied entry and turned around at the border, which, if you've come by marshrutka/minibus, means that you will be stranded until you are able to find a new bus or hitchhike back to Tbilisi.
- Get inThere are marshrutkas from Tbilisi to the border for about 17 lari to Yerevan.
- Get inAlso, several marshrutkas leave daily from Akhalkalaki into Armenia (Gyumri).
- Get inMarshrutkas pass through Ninotsminda, so it is possible to jump on there.
- Get inIn both directions, marshrutka leaves quite early in the morning.
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Next door to Balahovit
Balahovit is 11 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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