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Karvajar (Kalbajar) province |
 | | Although the region or the Tzar province is recorded much more frequently than the town Tzar (as, for instance, by Stepanos Orbelian), there is a reason to believe that the province should have been named after the administrative centre of the whole region, being the residential of princes or later meliks. |
 | | Visiting Tzar in 1880 Archbishop Makar stated that there were many tombs and khachkars at the outskirts of the village, but the "Kurds have partly broken them, partly erased the inscriptions". |
 | | As soon as Tzar was the princely headquarters of the province, there certainly, should have been palaces, or aparanks, houses of late medieval meliks. |
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