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   Beyond, a left fork goes to Ltsen, with a church and a shrine of 1347. There is a S. Khach pilgrimage site SE.  Name of the village comes, according to legend, from a local holy man named Nerses, who urged the villagers to drop (ltsnel) boulders down on the invading Mongols.

   The   right   fork  joins   the  Loradzor river at Darbas. This village has a ruined S. Astvatsatsin church build in the 13^th c. by Tarsayich Orbelian and his wife Mamakhatun. There is a small, ruined S. Stepanos church and, below the village, the “Arzumani Bridge” of 1680, with inscription: “In  the  year  of

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the Armenians 1129 (1680), in the reign of Shah Suleiman, and of local prince Maghsot Bek, who was controller of the royal house, was built the bridge of Haji Arzuman Agha for his remembrance, who was administrator of this place and many villages of this region, a man of good repute … by the hand of master Hayrapet.”