ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Arvakan 2 Monuments

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

Location

The quarters of these two historical villages (Shrvakan and Arvakan), situated in 1 km of one another, are scattered on the southeastern slopes, at the right bank of the Hochants River.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 154.

Historical Introduction

Each of these two villages was mentioned once only in the list of villages - taxpayers to the Tatev monastery. Both villages had to pay equal quantity of the tithe (1300 units of produce).

Chronicle of St. Orbelian, Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 154.

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Historical names of these two abandoned villages had been preserved upon their occupation by the Kurdish or Turkish shepherds in the 19th century, possibly, due to the presence of an insignificant number of Armenian residents. However, the map of 1904 marked these villages as Sharkar and Arbiyan (the former was marked as a wintertime settlement only). The Soviet maps marked Shrvakan as Shevakar or Shvakar. Arbiyan was later renamed anew to Alkhasli.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 154-155.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Arbiyan
Alkhasli