Definition of "khachkars" []

• Plural form of khachkar. (noun)

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• "On the fifth anniversary of the destruction of 3,000 khachkars, let the bare ground as seen from space be the screams for a civilization that was and now is not."
• "Many have heard of and condemned the Taliban's 2001 destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, but few have heard the cries of the defenseless khachkars."
• "The beautiful and intricately carved khachkars the craftsmanship of which is a UNESCO Intangible Heritage tradition, dating from the 9th through 17th centuries, were seen as the latest victims of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict materialized in the early 1990s war over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh."