ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Baghmanlar 1 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Gandzak (District) / Gandzak (District Centre) / Baghmanlar (Quarter)

Description

The oldest Turkish quarter in Gandzak, Baghmanlar, was situated on the right bank of the river, adjoined by two small Armenian quarters, Norashen and Yerevantsots. That part of the city also comprised “an inn, a castle, a caravanserai, a market, a hospital and a tavern...”

“Krunk Hayots Ashkhari,” Tpkhis, 1861, pp. 357-358.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 33.

19 c․

The city had the following quarters in the mid-19th century, “Yekeghetsu Kucha, Dik Kucha, Gerezmanatuni Kucha, Sabanlar Kucha, Patre Kucha and Chaylu Kucha, all of them crooked and very narrow...”

The Armenian equivalents for respectively ‘Church Quarter,’ ‘Steep Quarter’ and ‘Cemetery Quarter’ (‘kucha’ is the equivalent for ‘quarter’ in everyday vulgar Armenian); “Krunk Hayots Ashkhari,” Tpkhis, 1861, pp. 357-358.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 33.