ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Btchants Monuments

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

Description
18 c․

Bjants stream is the last and fullest tributary to the Hakari River. It takes source from the springs on the southern slopes of Tzavdeits mountain range, about 2200 m above the sea. The river is 29 km long and its basin covers the area of 198 sq. km. In its turn the Bjants river has numerous tributaries. Around ten old settlements are situated in the valleys and gorges of these smaller streams. Like other old settlements in the province Armenians inhabited in these villages till the second half of the 18th century, then the abandoned villages were little by little populated by various nomadic tribes.

Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol. VII, Baku, 1983, p. 542 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p.163.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Bjanis