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.
