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Khtzkonk monastery

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Khtzkonk Monastery (, also transcribed as Khtskonk and Xc'konk'; ) was a monastic ensemble of five Armenian churches built between the seventh and thirteenth centuries in what was then the Armenian Bagratid kingdom.Sinclair, Thomas A. (1987), Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey, vol. 1. London: Pindar Press, p. 421. The site is located near the town of Digor, the administrative capital of the Digor District of the Kars Province in Turkey, about 19 kilometres west of the border with Armenia, in a gorge formed by the Digor River. Read more on Wikipedia

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