ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Getamij 6 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Dashkesan (District) / Getamij (Village)

Location

The village is situated on a cape-shaped peninsula lying between the rivers Gandzak and Zivlan, 14 kilometres south-east of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,300 to 1,320 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 148.

Historical Introduction
1632 — 1655 yy․

The earliest written source to make reference to Getamij is one of Catholicos Pilippos’ (1632 to 1655) bulls which mentions it among some other Armenian-inhabited villages of Gandzak District.

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 48.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 148.

18 c․

It was stripped of its Armenian population in the second half of the 18th century and lay deserted until the late 19th century, when several families of Turkish stock-breeders settled down there.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 148.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Gyadamish