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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name          = Vazashen
|native_name            = Վազաշեն
|image_skyline          = Vazashen village, Tavush Province, Armenia.jpg
|image_caption          = A view of Vazashen
|pushpin_map            = Armenia#Tavush
|mapsize                = 150px
|subdivision_type       = Country
|subdivision_name       = [[Armenia]]
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Armenia|Province]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Tavush Province|Tavush]]
|subdivision_type2      = [[Municipalities of Armenia|Municipality]]
|subdivision_name2      = [[Ijevan Municipality|Ijevan]]
|population_footnotes   = <ref name="2011census">{{Cite web|url=https://armstat.am/file/article/1._bajin_1_182-311.pdf|title=The results of the 2011 Population Census of Armenia|author=[[Statistical Committee of Armenia]]}}</ref>
|population_as_of       = [[Census in Armenia|2011]]
|population_total       = 765
|timezone               = [[Armenia Time|AMT]]
|utc_offset             = +4
|coordinates            = {{coord|40|59|32|N|45|17|03|E|region:AM|display=inline}}
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'''Vazashen''' ({{langx|hy|Վազաշեն}}) is a village in the [[Ijevan Municipality]] of the [[Tavush Province]] of [[Armenia]].
== Toponymy ==
The village was previously known as Lala Gegh ({{langx|hy|Լալա գեղ}}), then Lali Gyugh ({{langx|hy|Լալի գյուղ}}).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.caa.am/eng/lg.php?section=COMMUNITIES&id=983 |title=CAA |access-date=2012-09-13 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305142854/http://www.caa.am/eng/lg.php?section=COMMUNITIES&id=983 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The name of Vazashen was chosen to reflect the local vineyard production<ref>http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/print.country18386 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> ([[wikt:վազ|վազ/vaz 'grapevine']] and [[wikt:շեն|շեն/shen 'village']]).
== History ==
Near Vazashen is the historical site of Khaghkhagh ({{langx|hy|Խաղխաղ}}), the winter residence of the kings of [[Ancient Armenia]], where [[Saint Vardan]] won his first military victory.<ref>Robert H. Hewsen. Armenia: A Historical Atlas. — University of Chicago Press, 2001. — 341 p. — {{ISBN|0-226-33228-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-226-33228-4}}</ref>
== Gallery ==
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Monument in Vazashen.jpg|Monument in Vazashen
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== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons}}
*{{ArmenianCensus|116}}
{{Tavush|state=expanded}}
{{Portal bar|Geography}}
[[Category:Populated places in Tavush Province]]
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