ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Mirik 4 Monuments

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

Location

This village is situated barely 0,5 km of Bozlu, but considerably higher (1440-1520 m above the sea), along both banks of the Mirik stream, the right tributary of Aghavnaget.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 131.

Historical Introduction

The map of 1904 marked it as Merik while the Soviet maps - as Mirik. It seems that the original form, or the historical name Merik, has reached us almost without any distortions.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p.131.

1924 y․

By the way, in 1924 the shepherds found a treasure, consisting of old coins, which, upon the delivery to the State Museum of Baku, appeared to be Persian coins of the 16th centuary.

E. A. Pakhomov, Monetary Finds in Azerbaijanian SSR in 1924, "Bulletin of Azerbaijanian Archaeological Committee", issue 1, Baku, 1925, p. 81-82 (in Rus.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 133.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Merik