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Some 4 km past
the Yeghvard zigzag, at the entrance to the village of
Zoravan
(formerly Pokravan), is a small
cemetery on the left, turning at which one reaches after a few hundred
yards the Zoravar church, a
ruined circular church and graveyard, built
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About
200 m N of Zoravan,
a dirt road right
(opposite an old stone-cutting plant) leads in 1.2 km to a reservoir and
(right of the road) the village of Dovri,
with important fortified
settlement of
Dovri, primarily Urartian but with Bronze Age,
Hellenistic, and medieval
traces aswell. Take the
right fork and park by
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(661-685),
on the lower slopes of Mt. Ara.
In the cemetery above is a small funerary
chapel.
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the
little church of 1879, which incorporates
khachkars from an abandoned medieval hamlet.
The Urartian fortress walls are best preserved on the N edge.
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