Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

Khachkars

The medieval Armenian cemetery at Jugha (Julfa) in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran, contained an estimated 6,000–10,000 khachkars and grave steles, the earliest dating to the 9th century and most from the 12th–17th centuries. Armenian scholar Argam Ayvazyan catalogued the full site in a photographic record published by the Armenian Academy of Sciences in the 1980s.

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The medieval Armenian cemetery at Jugha (Julfa) in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran, contained an estimated 6,000–10,000 khachkars and grave steles, the earliest dating to the 9th century and most from the 12th–17th centuries. Armenian scholar Argam Ayvazyan catalogued the full site in a photographic record published by the Armenian Academy of Sciences in the 1980s. 

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