ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Mrjmants 1600 — 1812 yy․ 7 Monuments

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

Location

Historical village Mrjman is situated 9.5 km southeast of Dadi Vank, in the source of Aragjur, tributary of the Trtu.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

Historical Introduction
1729 y․

The vicinity is woody, with numerous creeks spurting out of the ground. Despite numerous historical monuments, which have witnessed to the existence of this village since at least the XII-XIII cent., it is recorded for the first time in 1729 only in the colophon of the manuscript Typicon (“Mashtots”).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

19 c․

The colophon was copied there by Bishop Makar at the end of the XIX cent, in the village of Maghavuz of Jraberd region: “I, Markos, son of Father Melikset of Mrchman... Year 1729.”

M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 221; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

18 c․

Although Mrjman was not mentioned in the cadastre of monastery estates compiled by catholicos Simeon in the middle of the XVIII cent., the document of 1905 proved that it also belonged to the monastery (mentioned as Marjumak).

SCHARA, Fund 56, List 1, case 10403, p. 166 (in Armenian); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

Population
18 c․

Consequently, the villages situated in the eastern outskirts of the present-day Karvajar, such as Mrjman remained Armenian until at least the second quarter of the XVIII cent.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

1906 y․

In 1906 the population of Mrjman-Marjumak consisted of 89 Kurds. During the Soviet period the latter were totally assimilated with Turks.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

Description

Up to the end of the seventies there were two vaulted churches: one inside the village and the second -1 km east of it. The latter had a building inscription of 9 lines, which contained the dating: 1304.”

The only compillator of this inscription in situ was Mesrop Ter-Movsissian (see, Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 996), in 1911. The inscription has been later republished by S. Barkhudarian (see, "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 226) without any changes. Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

Both the churches and the Armenian cemetery inside the village are now totally demolished. In stead we saw many houses and cattle sheds, the walls of which were built of stones ornamented with crosses and relieves.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.

Type Photo
View Partial view
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Marjumak
Marjumek	1812 — 1920 yy․