title: Kosh, Armenia
text: # Kosh, Armenia
  
  Kosh (Armenian: Կոշ) is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, 18 km south-west of the district centre Ashtarak. The town is attested as Kvash in early Christian times. In the town are ruins of a 13th-century church - Saint Grigor - and a castle which has yielded Hellenistic pottery remains. There are numerous remains from early Iron Age residential ruins and buildings of large basalt stone blocks.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Map of Kosh and the surrounding region.
  * St. Gevorg church of the 19th century
  * Kosh Berd (13th century) atop a hill beyond the village cemetery, with the church of St. Grigor (13th century, foreground).
  * Kosh Berd on a hilltop above the cemetery, 13th century
  * Church of St. Stepanos of the 7th century in the gorge near Kosh.
  * Church of St. Stepanos, 7th century
  * Ruins of the hilltop chapel near the church of St. Stepanos.
  * Khachkar monument of 1175 at the hilltop cemetery.
  