Hankavan
Encyclopedia
Hankavan is a town in the Kotayk Province of Armenia
along in the Marmarik River below the Pambak Mountain Range. It is noted for its mineral springs, which were used as part of a sanitarium industry during the Soviet period.
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Before you are in the village itself, you can see a church and graveyard below you to the left. The church was built by Greeks who escaped the 1827 genocide. Graves date back to that early time. All around you are Greek homes and gardens. Originally 7 families immigrated to this village, a number that grew to a thriving village of 250 families. What remains are about 50 families who trace their ancestry to the Greek mainland.
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
along in the Marmarik River below the Pambak Mountain Range. It is noted for its mineral springs, which were used as part of a sanitarium industry during the Soviet period.
Demographics
Hankavan is one of the last Greek communities in ArmeniaGreeks in Armenia
The Greeks of Armenia are mainly descendants of the Pontic Greeks, who originally lived along the shores of the Black Sea. Seafaring Ionian Greeks settled around the southern shores of the Black Sea starting around 800 BC later expanding to coastal regions of modern Romania, Russia, Bulgaria and...
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Before you are in the village itself, you can see a church and graveyard below you to the left. The church was built by Greeks who escaped the 1827 genocide. Graves date back to that early time. All around you are Greek homes and gardens. Originally 7 families immigrated to this village, a number that grew to a thriving village of 250 families. What remains are about 50 families who trace their ancestry to the Greek mainland.