ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Gyodakdere Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Getabek (District) / Gyodakdere (Village)

Location

The village is situated on the right bank of a stream of the same name, 8 kilometres north-west of the district centre, between 1,500 and 1,580 metres of altitude above sea level. It borders on the historical village of Shakarbek in the south.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 255.

Historical Introduction

Stripped of its Armenian inhabitants in the 1770s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 255.

It was later re-populated by some Turks who totally obliterated all the traces of material culture the indigenous Armenians had once created. The present-day settlement was established in the Soviet years.