ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

The lower course of the river Hakari Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Hakari (Sub-District) / The lower course of the river Hakari (Area)

Description

Barely a few kilometers after the confluence with the Vorotan, the Hakari crosses the border of Zangelan district, where it flows open and wide through a quite flat plain. Both riverbanks up to the confluence with the Araxes, are covered by a dense networks of large and small villages, known mainly under their Turkish names, which they received during the past one or two centuries. Particularly, the villages Rabend, Alibeyli, Saral, Khumarli, Sharifan and Hajali are situated along the right bank, of the Hakari, while Aghali, Babajli, Mamedbeyli, Khavali and Zernali are located at the left bank.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 191.

Traces of Armenian culture are almost entirely missing in this part of the valley, provided for a few landmarks such as the mosque of Aghali, which was evidently founded on the prop-walls of an Armenian medieval church, or Armenian tombs of the 14th century preserved in the Mamedbeyli and Sharifan villages, or ruins of a watchtower near the village of Hajali. It seems that the Ghyut order established by Vasak the Hermit in the V-VI cent, should have been situated in this part of the district. The monastery estate consisted of five villages donated by the prince of Syunik: “They gave five villages with the following boundaries: beginning with Sevasar and up to the Botiboter, down to the stream of Tzeni and up to the gardens of Urkanots, and therefrom to the twists of the Aghaver River, opposite the church of Nakorzan, up to the house of God.”

"Areresum", N 16, 1996, p. 19 (in Arm.).
St. Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 117.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 191. Sevasar was later calqued to Gharadagh.