Mayrakahak (sometimes Kakhakateh ), a fortified settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh [1] , was the residence of the Armenian meliks of Israelians [2] . Located on the right bank of the river. Terter in the village of Vaguas. It is a complex of destroyed buildings, a cemetery and the Tiramayr Monastery [3] . The latter, along with the cemetery, was severely destroyed in the 1920s and 30s. The fortress towers guarding the city fortifications by the local population are called “Sergevlyasser” (from Armenian. “Quince pass”) [4]
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- Stepan Lisitsyan / Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnographic Essay / Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia p. 230 (248)
- ↑ Stepan Lisitsyan / Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnographic Essay / Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia p. 37 (248)Original text (rus.)Farther north beyond the prison of Artsatakhank in the valley of the r. Tartar before the Mravskiy Ridge tried to round off their possessions to the Jraberd meliks of Israel, who had a seat in the Mayrakahak castle under the shadow of the impregnable Jraberd fortress or in the castle near
- ↑ S.Mkrtchyan / Mairakahak or Tiramayr Monastery / Historical and architectural monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh / p. 47-48 (360)
- ↑ V. A. Petrov / The Ethnobotanist of Nagorno-Karabakh / USSR Academy of Sciences Ed. AzPan Baku-1940 g. P.23 (163)