Official Name: | Lchashen |
Native Name: | Լճաշեն |
Pushpin Map: | Armenia#Gegharkunik |
Mapsize: | 150px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Armenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Gegharkunik |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Sevan |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 4,969 |
Timezone: | AMT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 40.5203°N 44.9308°W |
Lchashen (Armenian: [[wikt:Լճաշեն|Լճաշեն]]) is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.
The settlement dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. It has a Bronze Age cemetery, a Urartian Iron Age fortress, and a 13th-century church. It is an important archaeological site associated with the Lchashen-Metsamor culture (Etiuni).