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Dilijan

Armenia

About Dilijan

Dilijan (Armenian: Դիլիջան;), is a lush, green city located in the northern Armenian province of Tavush.The health resort town Dilijan surrounded by the Lesser Caucasus mountain-range lies to the north-eastern part of the Republic of Armenia, in the valley of the river Aghstev, at a height of 1100-1510 meters above sea level. It borders with the Bazums in the north-east, the Pambaks - in the west and south-west, the Murghuzes- in the east and the Areguns- in the south-east. The forested and reclusive city is home to numerous Armenian artists, composers, and filmmakers and features some traditional Armenian architecture.

Basic information

Dilijan mineral water are resembling "Borjomi" by chemical composition, but with lower concentration. For digestive apparatus and urinary tract deseases, gaster catarrhus with hyperoxemia.

Nature

Due to its natural and climatic conditions Dilijan is a single land. Fine landscape has an extra positive influence on patients and holiday-makers.
The middle altitude is 1256meters. Relief is complicated. The Aghstev channel and terraces are smooth but slopes are cut off with ravines. The climate is moderately warm and humid. Dilijan is a standard medium-mountain zone climatic sanatorium and its principal sanitary factors are middle and high mountain climate, favorable oxygen regimen, unique landscape features and curative mineral waters availability.
One of the most valuable natural resources in Dilijan is woods covering the 34000hectares territory. For the purpose of woods’ flora and fauna keeping, enrichment and receiving new species in local conditions the state forest reserve has been organized in 1958 and later on in 2002 “Dilijan national park” has been created on its basis. The woodland covers 94 percent of the park territory and it has about 40 types of trees and 18 ones of bushes. In the most part the main tree types are oak, beech, hornbeam. There are such broad-leaved trees as a maple, a birch, an ash, a willow, a linden, an elm and others.
Coniferous forests in park cover only restricted territory.
Here one can meet oaks of 300-400 which are of 25 meters height and are 80-100 centimeters in diameter. One of the oak-woods with such an old trees situated in the Getik basin is considered to be the biggest one in Transcaucasia.
Oak, beech, hornbeam is rated highly for timber.
There are wild fruit-trees growing at the territory of park. They are apple-tree, pear-tree and plum-tree.
There one can meet a large variety of bushes such as raspberry, filbert, euonymus, ilex, rhododendron, cowberry, currant, gooseberry, jasmine, hawthorn, loquat, blackthorn, blackberry and others. There are 123 types of edible plants. About 180 types of herbs grow here (immortelle-strawflower, mint, thyme, nectar gland, burdock and others). There are a lot of mushrooms and the most of them are edible.
The national park has a very rich fauna. Here one can meet mammals as brown bear, wolf, marten, otter, lynx, sylvan cat, Persian squirrel, sylvan dormouse, hedgehog, chamois, European red deer, wild hog and others.
Typical avifauna representatives are pheasant, quail, common partridge, Caspian turkey, culver, bald eagle, lammergeyer, pygmy eagle, golden eagle, some hawks and others.
Reptile class is represented here by lizards, snakes and tortoises.
There are some representatives of amphibian class, they are green toad, Transcaucasian frog.
There are some kinds of fish such as brook trout, koghak and crucian carp.
The Lake Parz is situated in the northern part of the town at a height of 1400meters. It has 2hectares area and 8 meters mean depth. To the east of the Lake Parz, at a distance of 3kilometers from Gosh village, there is the Lake of Tzlka (Gosh) at a height of 1500meters.
The Aghstev with its tributaries gives peculiar charm to the general town landscape.
It originates in the north-western mountainside of the Pambak chain of mountains (at a height of 2980 meters) and flows into the Kura. The river length is 133 kilometers. The annual flow forms 256 cubic meters. The left-side tributaries Bldsan and Ghshtoghan join the Aghstev in the central part of the town. In the environs of Teghut village the tributary Haghartsin joins it and the longest tributary Getik flows into it in the lower part of the village Gosh.

Infrastructure

Historical and archtectural monuments
Goshavank is situated in the centre of village Gosh, at a distance of 16 kilometers to the east from Dilijan, in the picturesque gorge of river Tandzut, at a height of 1230meters above sea-level. It consists of several church constructions built in the 12-13th centuries and sacred places that moulded the splendid architectural complex. The church had a book depository which considered the best among the constructions of the same type /1241-1291/. The famous Aseghnagorts khachkar (the name of khachkar is translated as “embroidered”) is showed at the church doorway.
ukhtak vank lies to the west of Dilijan, at a distance of 3 kilometers, between two small tributaries of the Aghstev, not far from the mineral spring “Dilijan”. It has been built in the 12-13th centuries and consists of two churches hence the name Jukhtak (the name of monastery complex is translated “twins churches”). There is a small churchyard at it.
Matosavank is situated in front of Jukhtak Vank, at a distance of 3.5 kilometers to the west from Dilijan, at the right bank of the Bldan. The monastery complex consists of 3 low constructions. There is a medieval churchyard to the south-east of the church. The Blessed Virgin church has been built in 1205.
Haghartsin is a medieval monastery complex of the 10-13th century. It lies to the east of Dilijan at a distance of 12kilometers. It consists of four churches, two chapels a mess-room and khachkars. The mess-room is considered to be construction of great architectural value among the similar others.