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Description: The Amaras Monastery in Nagorno Karabakh where in the 5th century Saint Mesrob Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian Alphabet, established the first-ever Armenian school that used his script. The monastery was founded in the 4th century by St. Gregory the Illuminator, who baptized the Kingdom of Armenia into the world's first Christian state in 301 AD.
Title: Amaras-vank
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