ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Bjants 11 Monuments

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

Location

The village is situated at the right bank of the Bjants River, on the southeastern slope, at the very edge of the canyon, about 1400-1450 m above the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 165.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

The Kurdish tribes settling in this area since the beginning of the 19th century preserved the historical name of this village with slight distortion.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 164-165.

1214 y․

The only reference to this village (as Bjants) was made in the building inscription of 1214 on the cathedral of Dadi Vank.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 165.

18 c․

Although the village was never more mentioned in the subsequent centuries, the historical landmarks preserved in this area testify to the fact that till the middle of the XVIII century it was a welltodo village, inhabited by Armenians, and later reinhabited by nomadic Kurdish tribes.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 165.

Type Photo
Direction From the south
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
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