Jewish Cemetery / Yeghegis / Armenia
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 0.28 mi
- Elevation gain
- 36 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 36 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,102 ft
- TrailRank
- 25
- Min elevation
- 5,035 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 4 minutes
- Time
- 7 minutes
- Coordinates
- 69
- Uploaded
- May 3, 2022
- Recorded
- May 2022
near Zorats’, Vayotsʼ Dzor (አርሜኒያ)
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Itinerary description
The Jewish cemetery at the outskirts of the village of Yeghegis (Eghegis) in the Region of Vayots’ Dzor (Vayoc‘ Jor), Armenia – is a unique witness to the existence of Jewish communities in medieval Armenia. Indeed, while some Late Antique texts record the settlement of Jews in Armenia in the 2nd century BCE, these communities are never mentioned in the written sources in subsequent centuries. As a result, we do not know if they survived to the medieval period, where, and how they interacted with Christian and, later, Muslim populations of historical Armenia. Keeping this in mind and in order to better appreciate the significance of the Jewish cemetery, its position within the historical geography of the region, and its topographical relationship to other coeval structures both in the village of Yeghegis and the region of Vayots’ Dzor, a “Deep Impact Archaeological Survey” under the auspices of the ERC JewsEast project, co-funded by Z. Pogossian’s ‘Innovators Fund’ within RUB Research School, was organised in August 2018.
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