Nerkin Sasunashen

Coordinates: 40°21′43″N 43°58′58″E / 40.36194°N 43.98278°E / 40.36194; 43.98278

Nerkin Sasunashen Ներքին Սասունաշեն
Nerkin Sasunashen
Coordinates: 40°21′43″N 43°58′58″E / 40.36194°N 43.98278°E / 40.36194; 43.98278
Country	Armenia
Marz (Province)	Aragatsotn
Population (2001)
– Total	999
Time zone	(UTC+4)
– Summer (DST)	(UTC+5)

Nerkin Sasunashen (Armenian: Ներքին Սասունաշեն, also Romanized as Nerk’in Sasunashen, Nerqin Sasunashen and Nerkin Sasnashen; formerly, Nizhniy Karakoymaz, Nerkin Karakoymaz, Karakoymaz, and Gharagonmaz) is a town in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. The town has the foundations of a 7th century monastery. The town also contains a granite stele marking the crash site of a United States Air Force C-130 shot down by Soviet MiGs on September 2, 1958, in which 17 US personnel were lost.

References

• Nerkin Sasunashen at GEOnet Names Server
• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census
• Kiesling, Rediscoving Armenia, p. 18, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website