Place in Ararat, Armenia
Hovtashen
Hovtashen is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.
The village was founded in the 1920s, and initially was mostly populated by Azeri people. In the 1930s, Armenians from Surmalu, Nakhchivan, and Nukha settled in the village; in the 1950s, people from Hatsavan and other villages of the Abovyan region, while in the 1970s, people from the Vayq (Azizbekov) region settled in the village.
How locals move
Getting around Hovtashen the local way
- Get inMarshrutkas depart from Yerevan's Southern Bus Station behind the rail station to Artashat regularly throughout the day.
- Go nextYerevan – Along the highway by Artashat you can catch marshrutkas and shared taxis heading to Yerevan, or even private cars by thumb.
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