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Historic Sites Attractions In Sasunik

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Armenia Wine Company

Garni Gorge

Garni Temple

Mount Aragats

Echmiadzin Monastery

Amberd Fortress

The Monastery of Geghard

Sasunik ; is a village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It was founded as a collective farm in 1955, and villagers were resettled from the old village of Sasunik in 1960. The community of Sasunik also includes the village of Karin.
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Historic Sites Attractions In Sasunik

1. Garni Temple Garni
The Temple of Garni is the only standing Greco-Roman colonnaded building in Armenia and the former Soviet Union. An Ionic temple located in the village of Garni, Armenia, it is the best-known structure and symbol of pre-Christian Armenia. The structure was probably built by king Tiridates I in the first century AD as a temple to the sun god Mihr. After Armenia's conversion to Christianity in the early fourth century, it was converted into a royal summer house of Khosrovidukht, the sister of Tiridates III. According to some scholars it was not a temple but a tomb and thus survived the universal destruction of pagan structures. It collapsed in a 1679 earthquake. Renewed interest in the 19th century led to excavations at the site in early and mid-20th century, and its eventual reconstruction ...
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Armenija - 13. 9. 2017

Gyumri, Armenia Wine (vas Sasunik), Etchmiadzin (armenski Vatikan), Zvartnots (ostanki katedrale svetega Jurija), Khor Virap (samostan, cerkev, kapelica), Erevan. Podrobnosti: .

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