* Amaras Monastery (4th century) was a monastery was established by the foremost Armenian saint, St. Gregory the Illuminator, who baptized Armenia into the world's first Christian state in AD 301. Amaras also hosted the first school where St. Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet, taught the new script to pupils in the 5th century. The Amaras Monastery's location is in the Martuni District. As of November 2020, the monastery remains under Armenian control.