ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Hayri 6 Monuments

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

Location

It is located 3,5 km down the course of the Aghavnaget, at the right riverbank.

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

Historical Introduction
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The historical village Hayri, mentioned by St. Orbelian. The original form of the name was preserved, though with an insignificant distortion, till the beginning of the XX cent. The map of Yelisavetpol province published in 1904 marked it as Barapoon-Herik. During the Soviet period the village was renamed to Ahmadli.

Stephanos Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 399.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 129.

Type Photo
Direction From the south-east
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Herik
Ahmadlu
barapun-Herik
Ahmedli