ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Malibeyli 10 Monuments

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

Location

Isolated houses of the Malibeklu or Malibey village, reused by the Kurds since the middle of the 19th century extend 1,5 km away of Kashatagh, along the left bank of Aghavnaget.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 149.

Description

The only effort to restore the historical name of the village though without sufficient substantiation was made by S. Khanzadian: “Malibey -a little Kurdish village at the bank of the Zabukh river. I found a broken khachkar here, which reads:
"DURING THE RULE OF TARSAVICH THE GREAT".
I read on the belt of the bell within the area of the primary school:
"1328. HOVHAN VARPET (CRAFTSMAN) REMEMBER IN CHRIST".
The bell was cast by craftsman Hovhan in 1328. I saw a Vishapagorg (a carpet with a pattern named 'vishap'), with a text on the lower border:
"FOR ASATUR AGHA TO ENJOY, YEAR 1604."
Malibey is the village Mokhuln of Orbelian's list.380

Sero Khanzadian, Ibid. p. 24, 31.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 149.

The northern quarter of Malibeyli, which extends along the left bank of the Khnatzakh stream, flowing to Aghavnaget, was in the pre-Soviet period a separate village named Areglar. It is difficult to prove, but it might be the small village Arko, mentioned in Orbelian’s list (its tithe constituted 6 silver coins).

St. Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 399.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 150.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Makhuln
Malibeklu
Malibey
Arglar