ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Zangelan Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kovsakan (District) / Zangelan (City)

Location

Zangelan district center is located on the left bank of the Voghji River.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 195.

Description
1957 y․

The etymology of the historical name of the administrative center Pirchevan, which was renamed to Zangelan after being turned to a town type settlement in 1957 (and later in 1967 a town of republican significance), was provided by historian H. Gharagyozian, who proved that the village Ashtarak mentioned in St. Orbelian’s list of the Kovsakan district villages was identical to Pirchevan: “the word ‘ashtarak’ is perceived as a synonym to ‘burj’ (‘tower, fortress’), naturally, the name of the settlement adjoining the fortress might be compounded by nouns ‘Burj’ + ‘avan’ (‘settlement), thus giving Burgi avan> Burj evan>Brjevan, which under the Turkish phonetic influence was transformed to Pirchivan...”

H. Gharagyozian, Anti-Armenian Wedge and its Four Administrative Centres, "Yerkir" daily, 1994, June 12, N 131, p. 5.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 195.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Pirchevan