LITERATURE
 
FICTION
"The Dog" - Hovhannes Tumanyan (armenian)
"Armenian shepherd dog in Paris" - Mery M. Kandalean-Aslanean (armenian)
 
SOURCES
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2. Ethnographic periodical, vol 6, page 343:
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S. Dal, "Ovcharkas of Transcaucasus at the Beginning of the 1st Millennium B.C. in Lake Sevan Basin", Courier of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR, Social Sciences, No. 3, 1955, p. 55
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