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   Keeping  right   at   the   turnoff   for Arates, one climbs to the village of Vardahovit (formerly  Gyulliduz), with huge khachkar. The current population (130 families in summer, 30 in winter) is half refugees from Azerbaijan,    half   locals.   When  the

   Nearby   (NW)    is    the    hamlet    of Sevazhayr.

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weather holds, they scratch out a bare existence with wheat and potatoes.