vehicles wait near the entrance to Geghart monastery in Armenia

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Armenia is one on Europe’s most mountainous countries laying between Turkey Georgia Azerbaijan and Iran in the South Caucasus Situated along the route of the Great Silk Road, it has fallen within the orbit of a number of cultural influences and empires over the years , it frequently oscillated between Byzantine, Persian, Mongol or Turkish control, as well as periods of independence before finally gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 Armenia has one of the earliest Christian civilisations and Mount Ararat the Armenian national symbol just beyond the country's borders in Turkey Photo tourists arriving at the Geghard monastery which is partly hewn from the rock of the mountainside

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Location: Armenia
Photo credit: © ANDREW WRIGHTING / Alamy / Afripics
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