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   Again on the right  is  Karaglukh. Some 3 km S on a high plateau are the ruined 13^th c. walls of Mamasi Vank, built according to medieval legend to house the relicts of St. Mamas, carried back to Armenia by the princes of Syunik  from  Caesaria

   Aghnjadzor   (formerly   Aghkend), with church/cemetery, is the site of Lernantsk Caravansaray, located abuot a kilometer N of the village, appearing east of the road like a half- buried Quonset hut. Take the dirt road just   past  the   bridge,   crossing     the

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in Asia Minor in the 4^th c. The 13^th c. church is called S. Poghos (St. Paul). On a hill 3 km E of Karaglukh is a simple Tukh Manuk shrine built by the ruins of a substantial earlier church. There are numerous khachkars.

early bridge and heading up the stream valley. A smaller and cruder structure than the Selim Caravansaray, it was built in roughly the same period. Four km N are the so-called Kapuyt Berd (“Blue Fort”) ruins. Selim Caravansaray lies below the road just before the summit on the S side of Selim Pass (2410 m), a splendid relic of the days when an international trade route connected Vayots Dzor to the Sevan basin and points N.