ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Aghavnaget Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Aghavnaget (Area)

Description

The Aghavnaget is the fullest right tributary of the Hakari (Hagaru) River. It takes source from a little lake situated on the altitude of 3186 m above the sea, on the slope of mount Tzghuk (altitude -3584 m) in the Karabagh mountain range. The river with water samp covering over 527 sq. km288 is 51 km long. The fertile valley had been inhabited since the most ancient period. There are over 30 villages and settlements established in at least the Middle Ages. Materials relating to their history and culture are rendered below in geographical sequence.

Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, Baku, 1980, p. 279 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 124.