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Çarpanak Island

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Çarpanak Island (Çarpanak Adası) or Ktuts or Ktouts (Ktuts kghzi), is a small island in Lake Van. It is now uninhabited, but formerly contained an Armenian monastery called Ktuts. The ruins of it can still be seen.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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