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   Bypassing   Kaputan,    the    paved road continues to Hatis (until 1978 Kyankyan), with dairy production. The inhabitants came as refugees from Bayazit in 1918-20. The area is a treeless upland, with eroded volcanic cones (Mt. Hatis rises to 2528 m),    tumbled    boulders,     and

   Continuing  past  Hatis,  one  passes the village of Zovashen (until 1948 Dallaklu), founded in 1914 by refugees from Turkey. E and S are ruined settlements.

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wonderful dirt roads for mountain biking leading toward the far Geghama mountains. From behind the school in Hatis, a dirt road leads NNE about 7 km to Astghaberd, a cyclopean fort used as a place of refuge from the Bronze Age till medieval times.