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Taking the right fork, the
road winds to
Orgov, with several huge
radioastronomy telescopes and, in the W part of the
village, remains of a Bronze
Age cyclopean
fort, beside which an underground passage was recently
discovered leading to a neighboring
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Continuing
N up the mountain from Aghtzk,
one bears left at the fork to reach the
villageTegher,
with
an impressive
monastery
made of dark gray basalt. The
gavit,
finished in 1232, is particularly impressive. The
complex was built at the behest of Mamakhatun, wife
of
Prince
Vache
Vachutian, and the
architect, according to an
inscription on
a column
of
the
gavit,
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