Aparan is a town in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, about 50 kilometers northwest of the capital Yerevan. As of the 2011 census, the population of the town was 6,451. As per the 2016 official estimate, Aparan had a population of around 5,300.
From top left: Holy Angels Church with Mount Aragats Aparan reservoir • Battle of Abaran memorial Mausoleum of Dro • Natural landscape of Aparan Armenian alphabet park • Kasagh Basilica
4th century Ancient Greek inscriptions of Arshakuni king Tiridates II of Armenia rewarding Hrodomithr the new city of Nig (modern-day Aparan) from the Gntuni princes.
Kasagh basilica in 2014
Aparan
Armenian is an Indo-European language and the sole member of an independent branch of that language family. It is the native language of the Armenian people and the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian highlands, today Armenian is widely spoken throughout the Armenian diaspora. Armenian is written in its own writing system, the Armenian alphabet, introduced in 405 AD by the canonized saint Mesrop Mashtots. The estimated number of Armenian speakers worldwide is between five and seven million.
Armenian manuscript, 5th–6th centuries.
The Four Gospels, 1495, Portrait of St Mark Wellcome with Armenian inscriptions
First printed Armenian language Bible, 1666
Armenian language road sign.
