ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Bulija Monuments

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

Location

The insignificant village situated 1 km south-east of Hayri, at the left bank of the Aghavnaget.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 130.

Historical Introduction

It seems to be the Pool mentioned in the Chronicle and marked as ‘Bulija’ in the 5-verst map of 1904. During the Soviet period, it was renamed Ghalacha.

The Chronicle of Stephanos Orbelian, Annex, Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 130.

Population

Assimilated Kurds that migrated from the nearby villages inhabited here till 1992.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 130.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ghalacha