ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Kyollughshlagh Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kovsakan (District) / Kyollughshlagh (Village)

Location

This village served a safe den for the Turkish hijackers. It is situated between the Basutajur and its left tributary Shikahogh, very close to the Kapan district border.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 196.

Armenian-Turkish Fights of 1905 to 1906
1906 y․

The residents of Kollughshlagh were among the mob and got retaliation in 1906 when the Turks attempted to take over Hand and other Armenian villages in the vicinity. On 6 October 1906 the Armenians not only stopped the Turks, that approached and burnt the pastures of Hand, but also counterattacked and threw them away, chasing them up to the Turkish villages of Kollughshlagh, Mtnadzor and Sanalu. The inhabitants of these villages had to flee. They returned in a few years only, so that the population of all these villages consisted of 76 persons as of the state of 1 January 1914.

A-Do, Armenian-Turkish Conflicts of 1905-1906 in the Caucasus, Yerevan, 1907, pp. 300-301.
"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, p. 139 (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 196.