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Description

During the Soviet period another small Kurdish village called Vank, grew up at the place once occupied by Getamijo Surb Astvatzatzin monastery. Many of its cattle sheds and houses are built of processed monastery stones and crudely broken khachkar fragments.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 65.

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