Avshar, Ararat

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Avshar
Ավշար
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Հուշաղբյուր Երկրորդ աշխարհամարտում զոհվածներին, Ավշար
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Avshar
Coordinates: 39°50′26″N44°41′01″E / 39.84056°N 44.68361°E / 39.84056; 44.68361
Country Armenia
Province Ararat
Municipality Ararat
Population
 (2010)
  Total5,116

Avshar (Armenian : Ավշար) is a village in the Ararat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It hosted the 1993 and 1995 CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia led by Archbishop Hovnan Derderian and Ronald Alepian.

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