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- ↑ Aivazian, Armen M. (1997). The Armenian Rebellion of the 1720s and the Threat of Genocidal Reprisal (PDF). Yerevan: American University of Armenia. p. 20. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- 1 2 A. G. Hovhannisian and H. D. Papazian, "Azatagrakan krivnere Syunikum" [The liberation battles in Syunik] in Hay Zhoghovrdi Patmutyun [History of the Armenian People], vol. 4 (Yerevan: Haykakan SSH Gitutyunneri Akademiayi Hratarakchutyun, 1972), pp. 170–71.
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