ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Yalghuztam Monuments

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

Historical Introduction

This village is mentioned in the Annex of St. Orbelian’s Chronicle as the payer of tithe amounting to 2300 measures of produce due to the Tatev monastery.

Chronicle of Stephanos Orbelian (Annex) (in Arm.), Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 150.

Description
1904 y․

Its geographical location may be determined based on the following facts: firstly, the mount situated between the Abaslar and Jaghazur villages is marked on the map of 1904 as Yalghuz-Dagh. Secondly, the Soviet military maps of later periods mark a certain location on the woody slope of that very mountain range, 1 km southeast of the summit, the name of which is omitted, as Yalghuz-Dam. The present day Kurdish (till 1992) village situated here was called Uluduz. The Kurds settled in this obviously old village in the second half of the 19th century, after the Armenian exodus. It is not difficult to guess that this is the historical Yalghuztam.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 150.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Uludyuz