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The Battle of Akori was a battle fought in 481, in the ancient village of Akori, the Persians had launched an attack in Armenia. The Armenian squadrons had led the Persians to the mountains of Ararat and ultimately defeated the Persian forces.

The Armenian rebels consisted of 300 men against 7,000 Persian regulars in Agori.

Arguri
Arguri also known as Arghurri, Arghuri, was an ethnic Armenian village in Russian Armenia. According to tradition Arguri was the oldest village in the world, and the first vine was said to be planted here by Noah. In the Armenian language, the word 'Arghurri' means "he planted a", or "the vine". In 1840 a catastrophe earthquake buried the village. The population consisted of 1600 Armenians, with a number of Kurds also.

Earthquake
James Bryce wrote in 1877 about the 1840 quake:

There formerly stood a pleasant little Armenian village of some two hundred houses, named Arghuri, or Aghurri Not far above the village. . . stood the little monastery of St. Jacob, eight centuries old. Towards sunset in the evening of the June 20, 1840, the sudden shock of an earthquake, accompanied by a subterranean roar, and followed by a terrific blast of wind, threw down the houses of Arghuri, and at the same moment detached enormous masses of rock with their super-adjacent ice from the cliffs that surround the chasm. A shower of falling rocks overwhelmed in an instant the village, the monastery and a Kurdish encampment on the pastures above. Not a soul survived to tell the tale. The little monastery, where Parrot lived so happily among the few old monks is gone forever.

The earthquake and fall of rock which destroyed the village of Arghuri, in 1840 may have been caused by a volcanic explosion, but the evidence is not satisfactory.