Emir :: ARTSAKH LOCATIONS

Monuments

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

Location

This Turkish settlement extends on the southwest-facing slope of a mountain rising 12 kilometres west of the district centre, in an area among the historical villages of Metz (Greater) Gharamurat, Karkar and Heriknaz, at an altitude of 1,480 to 1, 580 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 242.

Historical Introduction
1770 y․

It was founded in the Soviet years in the site of an Armenian village abandoned in the 1770s (its historical name is consigned to oblivion).