ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Atakhal Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Getabek (District) / Atakhal (Village)

Location

The settlement is situated on the left bank of the river Zakam, 16 kilometres west of the district centre, between 1,170 and 2,080 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 222.

Population
1770 y․

In the early 20th century, several families of Turkish Ayrums arrived at the site of a derelict Armenian village which had been stripped of its population in the 1770s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 222.

20 c․

The newly-arrived stock-breeders totally obliterated all the vestiges of the local Armenian monuments.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 222.

In 1908 Atakhal had 234 inhabitants, whose number had dropped to 146 by 1914.

Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 189.
Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 92.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 222.