ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Dzoratsik Monuments

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

Location

2,5 km northeast of the town, on the source of the tributary flowing down the gorge there are the ruins of the historical Dzoratsik village.

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

Historical Introduction

St. Orbelian once mentioned this village in the list of Aghahej province.

Artak Ghulian, Stone Documents, "Azatamart", 1993, N 399, p. 11 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 149.

Description

The village has preserved the traces of cave settlements and old houses. The Kurds residing here during the pre-Soviet period pronounced the toponym as Zeyrik or Ziyrik.

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

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Zeyrik
Ziyrik