ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Kotor 1 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Karvajar (District) / Kotor (Village)

Location

It is situated on one of the main right tributaries of the Dotkhu, at the riverside, in a deep gorge, 1780 m above the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 66.

Historical Introduction
1259 y․

Kotor was witnessed in the epigraphic inscription of Dadi Vank, dating back to 1259, as the birthplace of some Hovannes Yerets, one of the benefactors of Dadi Vank.

"Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 204; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 66.

The village has preserved its historical name up to now (currently pronounced Kotur or Ghoturli).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 66.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Kodur
Kotur
Ghoturli