Nerkin Sasnashen

40°21′23″N 43°59′31″E / 40.35639°N 43.99194°E / 40.35639; 43.99194

Place in Aragatsotn, Armenia
Nerkin Sasnashen
Ներքին Սասնաշեն
Nerkin Sasnashen is located in Armenia
Nerkin Sasnashen
Nerkin Sasnashen
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Nerkin Sasnashen is located in Aragatsotn
Nerkin Sasnashen
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Coordinates: 40°21′43″N 43°58′58″E / 40.36194°N 43.98278°E / 40.36194; 43.98278
CountryArmenia
ProvinceAragatsotn
MunicipalityTalin
Population
 (2001)
 • Total999
Time zoneUTC+4

Nerkin Sasnashen (Armenian: Ներքին Սասնաշեն) is a village in the Talin Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is home to the ruins of a 7th-century Armenian monastery. The village contains a granite memorial marking the crash site of a United States Air Force C-130 shot down by Soviet MiG-17s on 2 September 1958 with the loss of 17 U.S. personnel.[1]

Joint US-Armenian memorial to the 1958 C-130 shootdown incident

References

  1. ^ Mirror-Spectator, The Armenian (2018-08-10). "60th Anniversary of Shoot-Down of USAF Aircraft over Armenia". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  • Nerkin Sasnashen at GEOnet Names Server
  • Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census
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Aragatsotn Province
Capital: Ashtarak
Urban settlements
  • Aparan
  • Ashtarak
  • Talin
Alagyaz MunicipalityAparan MunicipalityAragatsavan MunicipalityArevut MunicipalityAshtarak MunicipalityMetsadzor MunicipalityShamiram MunicipalityTalin MunicipalityTsaghkahovit Municipality
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