ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Samanlu Monuments

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

Location

The village is situated on the west-facing slope of a gorge lying on the right bank of the river Legharak, 21 kilometres north of the district centre, between 1,320 and 1,400 metres of altitude above sea level (“...the villages of Samanlu and Merekhlu, that were located on the slope of a gorge extending on the right bank of the river”).

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 17.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 286.

Historical Introduction
1770 y․

Stripped of its Armenian population in the 1770s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 286.

Population
1890 y․

By 1890 it had already been inhabited by some Turkish cattle-breeders who led a sedentary mode of life.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 286.

1983 y․

In 1983 the local inhabitants totaled 814.

Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 8, Baku, 1985, p. 277.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 286.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Samanlegh