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Horom Citadel

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Horom Citadel in Armenia
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Horom Citadel (Armenian: Հոռոմ Բերդ, also Romanized as Orom and Horrom) is an ancient Bronze Age through Urartian fortification atop two large hills south of the main road and opposite of the dam and Kamut Reservoir. It is about 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) east of the village of Horrom in the Shirak Province of northwestern Armenia. Not far from this location in Ghak and Shvaghtapa are two Urartian cyclopean forts.

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Horom Citadel ranks #3,330 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #15 of the 25 mapped in Armenia. See how Armenia compares in the castle statistics.

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