sentences:  His cousin Vakhtank, whose descendants would become the Melik-Avanyan family, was given control over the region of Dizak.As a method of showing their relation to Hasan-Jalal, his descendants adopted Hasan-Jalal as their surname and appended -yan to the end to form a suffix.The family funded numerous architectural and cultural projects which continue to stand today, including Gandzasar monastery and the adjacent Church of St. John the Baptist.