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   Angling    left    from    Dasht,    one reaches Aygeshat (until 1935 Hajighara, mixed Armenian/Kurdish), which has (turn right at the SE edge of village) the badly ruined Targmanchats (“Translators”) Vank of the 7th c., and maybe also a S. Gevorg church  of  the  18th c.  and,  on   a    hill

   A   further   turnoff   from   the   main Ejmiatsin bypass leads NW to Tsaghkunk (till 1946 Abdurahman), with S. Astvatsatsin church of 19th c, restaurant; SW  is Tsaghkunk or Mkhltapa Neolithic tell (just behind the monument to 7 Yugoslav aviators, on the   left   side   of   the   main  highway,

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nearby, an early tower.

        

passing Vagharshapat on the E bypass).