UNDER CONSTRUCTION

   Continuing    the   main   road    and turning left, a good road leads SW to Ashnak (formerly Eshniak), known since the 5th century as a substantial settlement but in its current location a foundation of 1830, refugees from Sasun.  A  left turn    just    past    the     little    village

   Again  a  choice  of  roads   leads   to Katnaghbyur (formerly Mehraban), with ruined 5th c. church.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

square leads to the ruins of a simple 10th c. chapel on earlier foundations. In the cemetery on the right hand side of the main road are scanty mortar and rubble outcrops from a 5th(?) c. church, and traces of a cyclopean fort amid  the  well-tended farmyards. Further W, about 5 km are ruins of a 9-10th c. fort, and 1st c. BC graves. Ashnak has a famous folk dance troop that, in better times, toured internationally.