ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Tigranakert Monuments

NKR (Country) / Aghdam (District) / Tigranakert (City)

Location
BC 95 — BC 55 yy․

It is believed that one of the four towns established by the Armenian king Tigran the Great (95-55 B. C.) and named after him should be located either within the area of the famous spring and the present day village Tarnoyut or Tarnagut (in the foothill of Vankasar) to the northeast of the Shahbulagh castle, or in the site of Gavurghala.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 213.

Description

It should be noted that the data of records referring to these four towns, all of which were called Tigranakert and differed only by provinces, were often confused, if the name of the province: Aldznik, Goghtn, Utik or Artsakh, was not provided by the source. This is especially true in regard of the two latter provinces, situated side by side. Particularly, Tkrakert mentioned in the records was situated at the right bank of the Shamkhor river, in Utik, and not in Artsakh.

See the Toponymic Map of the Barum and Barsum villages area ("Gardmank" monthly, 1996, N 3, p. 7). Actually this field of research hasn't been thoroughly investigated.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 213.