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accompanied by a subterranean roar, and followed by a terrific blast of wind, threw down the houses of
Arghuri, and at the same moment detached enormous masses of rock with their super-adjacent ice from the cliffs that surround the chasm. A shower of falling rocks overwhelmed in an instant the village, the monastery and a Kurdish encampment on the pastures above. Not a soul survived to tell the tale. The little monastery, where Parrot lived so happily among the few old monks is gone forever.
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Yenidoğan is situated on the northeastern slope of Mount Ararat at an altitude of 1,743 metres (5,718 ft). It is notable for the 1800 meters deep Ahora (or Akhuri) Gorge, a massive canyon on the north side of Ararat. The village has a highly fluctuating climate with extreme temperatures and a
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