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   Back on the main road S from Gavar, one first reaches Karmirgyugh (“Red Village”, till 1940 Ghulali), which was founded 1831 by migrants from Bayazit.  In the center of the village are ruined churches of S. Grigor and S. Astvatsatsin, with khachkars. A boundary stone inscribed in Aramaic of King   Artashes   was  found   here,   and

   S of Karmirgyugh, a turn-off W leads to Yeranos with an Astvatsatsin church of 1215 (bear left inside the village) and Tukh Manuk and S. Sofia shrines. Left of the Gavar-Martuni road, by the old chicken farm, are cyclopean fort remains.

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there are Urartian ruins nearby. Some 12 km S of Gavar, on a peninsula jutting into the lake, is Kanagegh medieval settlement with khachkars and a cyclopean fortress.