Khnnalu Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khnnalu Village Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Touz / Yankhli

Historical Introduction
1890 y․

In 1890 Sargis Kamalian wrote the following about the village’s monuments of antiquity, “...The Zulghadarovs have magnificent residences surrounded by platans and poplars. This village is called Khennalu or Khelkhana.”

S. Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 35. An anonymous article entitled Studies of the History of Azerbaijan contains a photo of the standing bridge (“Izvestya Akademii Nauk Azerbaijanskoy SSR,” 1946, No. 5, p. 95).
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 548.

Description
1890 y․

Bishop Makar, who visited Yankhli in the early 1890s, confirms that once a village existed there: “…The deep valley is surrounded by Mounts Enkuzut (Ghozlu) in the east, and Mamrut (Mamertlu) in the south, as if lying within a natural enclosure along both banks of the river. It abounds in vestiges of different monuments of late antiquity, such as heaps of stones, broken fragments of old, rough vessels, remnants of lime and brick walls as well as huge barrels found in some underground ditches. The bricks are thicker, longer and wider than usual, i.e. 31 square centimetres. Some earthenware tubes used to provide the former village with spring water from time immemorial. This is proved by the ruins of the long, rough pipeline, once extending in the west of its present-day site and destroyed by Zulkatarov Hamit Bey. Regretfully, the traces of the church have disappeared altogether.”

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 57.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 548-549.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Khlkhana