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Katrghalasi Stronghold

NKR / Kovsakan / Emirkhanli

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Description
19 c․

When this area passed under the Russian rule, the Russians renovated a small medieval fortress situated on top the Ghzghala mount (1023 m above the sea), 1 km southwest of the village Emirkhanli (2.5 km away of the left bank of Araxes) and used it as a borderline fortification.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 197.

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