ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Shalva Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Shalva (Sub-District)

Description
18 c․

The Shalva is the right hand tributary to the Hakari River. It is the third fullest river after the Aghavnaget and Hochants. Shalva takes source of the creeks spurting on the altitude of 2580 m above the sea. The river course is 42 km long. The water samp basin covers the area of 582 sq. km.413 Over 20 large and small villages situated in the valley of Shalva and its tributaries, as well as other settlements of the region, had been earlier populated by Armenians, and abandoned in the second half of the XVIII century. The Kurds occupied them within some period of time.

Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol., X, Baku, 1987, p. 505 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 159.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
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