ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khojakhan 2 Monuments

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

Location

The Khojakhan village are situated below the confluence of the Hakari and Vorotan rivers.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 186.

Etymology

As regards the etymology of the toponym Khojakhan, there is the following comment: “Khojakhan is the largest village, by the river course, the original name of which- Khoja Hovhan was distorted by the foreigners. The latter was a wealthy man, a merchant, whose property was plundered and whose tribe was exterminated by tyrannical Fat-Ali, the opponent of Davit-Bek...”

Gh. Alishan, Sisakan, Venice, 1893, p. 282 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 186.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Khoja-Ohan