ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Agati 3 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashunik (District) / Agati (Village)

Location

The village is situated 0.7 km east of the Dzor village, at the right elevated side of the Kashuni River gorge.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 185.

Historical Introduction

Agati mentioned by St. Orbelian within the list of Kashunik district villages (with the tithe equal to 8 dahekan) was the Armenian village of medium size. During the late Middle Ages the village was still mentioned as Akati, while the czarist maps of the late XIX cent marked it as Ayadi.

St. Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 401.
The Chronicle of Stephanos Orbelian, Annex, Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 185.

The identity of these three toponyms is doubtless. During the Soviet period the village was renamed to Mehrili.

G. M. Grigorian, On the topography of a Number of Settlements of the Historical Syunik, "Historical-Philological Journal", 1966, N 4, p. 233 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 185.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Akati
Ayadi	19 c․
Mehrili