Tegh, from the road to Karabagh


Tegh is in Syunik province, near Goris. It’s the last village before the border on the road from Goris to Stepanakert in Karabagh.

The feature I find most interesting is all those caves. They’re not natural caves, but caves dug by people, and lived in until relatively recently. They’re now used for storage or for cattle, but it’s only a few decades since they were people’s homes.

  

Many villages in this area have such caves – often in spectacular rock pillars.

Tegh is also sometimes Romanized as Tekh, but this misses a subtlety of the pronunciation (gh is similar to the ch in the Scottish word loch, but voiced – the same difference as between g and k).

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©Clive K Semmens 2011