ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Koshk 3 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Khanlar (District) / Koshk (Village)

Location

The village is situated 4 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 990 to 1,060 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 401.

Historical Introduction
1632 — 1655 yy․

It is mentioned in one of Catholicos Pilippos’ (1632 to 1655) bulls among numerous other Armenian villages of Gandzak Province.

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 48.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 401.

Population
19 c․

In the early 19th century, Koshk represented a purely Armenian village. Most probably, it was invaded and devastated during the Persian incursion of 1826, as it was located close to Gandzak City.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh. Yerevan, 2007, p. 401.

1804 y․

In 1804 it had 7 houses with 17 inhabitants, including 10 males and 7 females.

Collected Acts of the Caucasian Archaeological Commission, vol. 2, Tiflis, 1868, p. 596.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 401.

19 c․

It remains unknown when exactly Koshk was stripped of its Armenian residents: it must have occurred not later than 1839, as from that year onwards, it is not mentioned in any of the existing numerous statistical registers. For many decades following its depredation, the village remained uninhabited, as attested by a visitor who saw it in 1885, “Not far from the site of the chapel lie the ruins of a village which must have had a princely summer residence. At present it is called Koshk among the people of the neighbourhood.”