ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Akn 2 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashunik (District) / Akn (Village)

Location

Akn is situated 2.3 km north of Davit Bek village, on the eastern slope of the mount Akn, on the altitude of 1330-1400 m above the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

Historical Introduction

This village is also mentioned in the list of the Kashunik district (with 6 dahekan of tithe, which means that this should be a small village). The village is recorded under the same name also within the list of the Barkushat district villages in the Annex to the “Chronicle.”

St. Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 401.
The Chronicle of St. Orbelian, Annex, Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

1976 y․

As mentioned by A. Gharagyozian “Till now the residents of Davit-Bek, Kapan district use the name Akn to denote the neighboring Azerbaijanian Ayin, situated at the left bank of the Kashuni River...”

A. Gharagyozian, On the Topography of the Baghk and Kashunik Provinces of Syunik", "Banber of the Yerevan University", 1978, N 3, p. 197 (in Arm.);.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

Description

Before the establishment of the Soviet rule, Akn and its environs belonged to the Yeghiazariants family. In 1900 the same landowner built a single span stone bridge over the Kashuni River at the edge of Zeiva (the present-day Davit-Bek village).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ayin