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Shaki

Shaki waterfall is in Syunik region of Armenia. The origin of its name comes from a legend, according to which Shaki has been a very beautiful girl and a conqueror who adored her beauty ordered her to come to him. Shaki didn’t want to become a victim of his violence and jumped from a high rock. When falling down her long dress opened and turned into a waterfall. Since then this waterfall it is called Shaki.