ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Spitakajur 1 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Spitakajur (Village)

Location

Spitakajur is the most elevated (1750-1850 m over the sea) settlement in the basin of the Hochants River.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 152.

Historical Introduction

The only historical record relating the village is the Annex of St. Orbelian’s Chronicle.

Chronicle of St. Orbelian (Annex), Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 152.

Population
18 c․

In conformity with the Annex the village paid tithe to the Tatev monastery (2900 measures in produce). Armenians probably inhabited the village till the second half of the 18th century, and the Kurds that settled here after the village was totally emptied, translated its name to Aghbulagh.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 152.

Description

The last sparse woods vanish long before reaching the village giving place to vast and heavy alpine meadows. The village quarters extend along the southeastern slopes of the gorge.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 152.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Aghbulagh