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Touz Monuments

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Location

The city is situated on Ghazakh-Gandzak Highway and the railroad of the same name extending parallel with it, 24 kilometres south-east of Ghazakh, at an altitude of 430 to 455 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 547.

Historical Introduction

The present-day administrative centre of the district of the same name, Touz used to be a railway station before 1935. Later it turned into a township and preserved that status until 1947, when it grew into a city.