Prior to the feasibility study being completed, the Southern Armenia Railway was anticipated to be a 316km railway linking Gavar, 50km east of Yerevan near Lake Sevan, with the Iranian border near Meghri.
In 1810 he took hold of Meghri Citadel, withstood a siege by the Persian army and then routed them on the Araks River.
In 2001 the monument of Paramaz and his 19 Hunchakian comrades was opened in Meghri, Armenia.
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