ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Shamkhor (District) / Saler (Village)

Location

The village lies 18 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,450 to 1,480 metres above sea level.

Historical Introduction
1918 y․

It was founded in 1918 by 50 Armenian families from Barsum.

Saler had 94 Armenian inhabitants in 1983 and 70 houses in the late 1980s, when it also had an eight-year school of a small number of pupils.

Population
1988 — 1989 yy․

The village was stripped of its residents during the deportation of 1988 to 1989.