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306 BERBERIAN AND TCHALENKOb) Mountain regionAbout half the villages damaged or destroyed by the earthquake were situatedin the mountains which surround the Salmas Plain in the north, west and south. However,with the exception of Chahriq on the Zola Chay River, these villages were allsmaller than those of the plain. They were populated then (1930) as they are now,Turks and Kurds, their Christian population having fled in 1918. For convenienceFig. 27. S. Asdvadzadzin (Akht6khaneh). The 14th century church was slightly fissured. Westernfacade and southern wall.