Pambak

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Pambak

a mountain range in the Transcaucasian Highland extending from Leninakan to the northwestern edge of Lake Sevan in the Armenian SSR. The range has elevations to 3,101 m and is composed of igneous rocks. Mountain-steppe and mountain-meadow vegetation grows on the slopes. In the east, on the northern slope, are broad-leaved forests.

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Armenia (Pambak, Maralik), the Erzurum, Kars, Erzican, Ardahan, Rize, Giresun, Trabzon, and Bayburt Provinces in eastern Turkey (Orlov 1969, Lyapunova et al.

Review of chromosome races in blind mole rats (Spalax and Nannospalax)

administrative district of Yerevan, Goght village of Kotayk region and Pambak village of Gegharkunik region, as well as a separate land

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In the immediate vicinity of the village, near mausoleums known as pambak and sandung, where the bones of the departed are kept, as well as in front of some dwellings, there are commemorative hampatongs.

A pambak is a mausoleum in which the bones are arranged so as to reproduce the shape of the deceased's body.

This type of mausoleum, smaller than a pambak, is intended almost solely for the village.

Hampatongs in the daily life of the Ngaju Dayaks

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