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   Spandarian (till  1939   Meliklu   or Kalachik, renamed for the famous Armenian revolutionary) has a 5-6^th c. church on the S slope of the Vorotan river valley.

   Angeghakot         has        Neolithic dolmens and Bronze Age/Iron Age tumuuli.  Three medieval churches: S. Astvatsatsin, S. Stepanos, S. Hazaraprkich (“Savior of Thousands”), unusual 17^th c. khachkar, and sparse remains of an early       Christian       church.       There

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is a S. Vardan church of 1298, still a pilgrimage site, one km from the village, where, according to tradition, the defeated Armenian army stopped to rest after the battle of Avarayr in AD 451. In 1699 Israel Ori convoked a meeting of eleven Armenian meliks to draft a petition to Czar Peter the Great, the Pope, and other potentates asking their intervention against Armenia’s Persian overlords.