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UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
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Bayandur
Railroad Station
is just
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Shirakavan
(till
1950 Davshanlan) is the new town built to replace the old,
flooded by the reservoir.
S is the site of Sevakn on the confluence of the Akhurian
river and Sevakn creek.
The site was excavated in 1977, and revealed a
substantial cult site of the 2nd c BC to 3rd
c. AC, showing
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CONSTRUCTION
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links
with both Rome and Persia.
The site is now partly flooded by the reservoir, as is a
Stone Age site with mammoth bones, but a cyclopean fort remains
on a hill above.
There is or was a large church nearby. However, the original site of the medieval city of
Shirakavan or Yerazgavors, famous as the seat of the Bagratuni
family in the 9th c. before they moved to Ani around 961, was on
the far side of the Akhurian river at Bash-Shoragyal. |
