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The
main West-East road to Spitak, once and potentially in the
future an important transportation route from Kars to Tbilisi or
Baku, leaves Gyumri to the NE, passing first through the village
of Shirak
(till 1940 Ghonaghkran,
this earlier name in popular
etymology
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Opposite
is a turnoff for
Kamo
(till 1935 Haji Nazar,
Astvatsatsin church of 1878, named for a romantic but somewhat
unsavory revolutionary bank robber).
Two km NW is Chataljur medieval settlement and Khacher
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“guest-killer,”
after a legendary incident when the locals, warned of their
guests’ evil intentions, massacred a group of Persian soldiers
quartered in their houses).
There is a S. Hakob church and S. Minas shrine.
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