Melikzada Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Melikzada Village Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Novo-Saratovka

Location

Melikzada (Melikzata), a village site of a remarkable history whose original name remains obscure, is situated in the territory between Novo-Saratovka and Artzvashen.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.

Historical Introduction
17 c․

Arakel Davrizhetsy is the first historiographer to mention Melikzada (Melikzata) in the early 17th century, when “...Bishop Melkiset from Melikzata Village of Verin Zakam...” left for Persia to take up permanent residence in Isfahan together with some other people escaping the Ottoman oppression.

History by Arakel Davrizhetsy. Yerevan, 1990, p. 63.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270:

1652 y․

In 1652 Priest Hakob copied a manuscript Gospel in the village. Later M. Barkhutariants saw it in Banants’ St. Grigor Lusavorich Church and published its colophon: “...The copying of this Holy Gospel was initiated on 1 March 1652 of the Armenian era and completed on 15 April... It was written by worthless priest and unskilled scribe Hakob by the grace of Sourb Astvatzatzin, Sourb Nahatak and St. Thomas in Melikzata Village of Zakam District.” The first people to receive that Gospel were Priest Kirakos and Melik Ovanes.

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 282. Republished without any changes in: Colophons of the Armenian Manuscripts of the 17th century, vol. 3. Compiled by Hakobian, V. Yerevan, 1984, p. 276.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270:

1669 y․

The village is also mentioned in the colophon of a Gospel (1669) kept in the church of Ghulali (Aygedzor): “My son Gabriel and I, Ovan from Melikzada, ransomed this holy Gospel from the enemy with our honestly-earned means...”

“Nor-Dar,” 1888, No. 95, p. 3.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270:

17 c․

The village was stripped of its Armenian population in the ‘70s of the 18th century, its inhabitants moving to Metz Shulaver: “The territory of Pendekhlu and its neighbourhood were once occupied by the large, prospering village of Melikzata, whose residents immigrated into Shulaver in the late 18th century.”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, pp. 33-34.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270.

19 c․

In the late 19th century, “...The village of Melikzata, which forms part of royal possessions, belongs to the Malakans...”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, pp. 33-34.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Melikzata