Mayrakahag

Mayrakahag (sometime Kahakatekh) — is a fortified colony in the Mountain Karabakh. It was Israelyan family's residence who were one of Armenian lords (meliks) family in Karabakh. The settlement located on the right bank of the Tartar river in the Vaguas village (today it un-recognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic). It represent the complex of several ruined buildings, old cemetery and the Tiramayr monastery. The monastery and the cemetery was badly destroyed in period from 1920 to 1930-s. The Armenians called the surviving fortress towers is "Sergevlaser" (in Armenian it mean "quince pass")