ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Margk Monuments

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

Historical Introduction
1682 y․

This village was also first recorded by St. Orbelian. It seems, this is the Markiz village. The village and the summit of identical name to the southeast of it were marked in the map of 1904. During the Soviet period the village was totally abandoned.

Stephanos Orbelian, History of Syimik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 399; In the Armenian variant of the same research there was a mis take (p. 134), Merik toponym was read Margk. The mistake was noticed and corrected by A. Hakobian ("Handes Amsorya", 1998, N 1-12, p.281-282).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 150.

Description

Presently, almost nothing is left of that village, besides small hills, marking the places of houses.

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

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Markiz
Margis