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Eghetsi Hogher Ancient Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Location

The ancient site of Yeghetsy Hogher (the Armenian equivalent for ‘Church Lands’) extends at the end of the quarter of Dimats Tegh, on the right bank of the river Artinajur.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 130.

Description

Its remnants comprise a ruined church and a cemetery tracing back to the early Middle Ages. The latter abounds in cross-stones adorned with old-styled simple reliefs but devoid of any inscriptions: about twenty of them stood intact before 1989.