ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Aghvesahak Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Aghvesahak (Village)

Location

Ruins of a medieval village, a church and a cemetery are situated 3 km south of Hak, at the bank of the gorge. Their location (between the Herik and Hak villages) corresponds to the location of the Aghvesahak village, mentioned in the Chronicle.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 129.

Description

Later under the Kurdish influence the name of the settlement was distorted as ‘Aghvatkher’.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 129.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Aghvatkher