ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khzrkhana Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kovsakan (District) / Khzrkhana (Village)

Location

Kzirkhana is a ruined village situated on the woody northeastern slope of the Susanasar mount, 5 km away of Vtanants.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 194.

Historical Introduction
17 — 18 cc․

Though the population of the neighboring villages called it Kzirkhana, the list of the Bargushat district villages compiled in XVII-XVIII cent, marked them as Keazarkhuni.

Chronicle of St. Orbelian, Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 194.

18 c․

In the XVIII century the village was part of prince Toros’s estate.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 194.

1831 y․

The name of this village was mentioned in the donatory inscription carved on the southern wall of the Agarak village church in 1831: “SARGIS PETROSSIAN, RESIDENT OF KZIRKHANA AND HIS SPOUSE GNEA HASRATIAN GAVE THIS STONE TO COMMEMORATE THEMSELVES, LET THIS CHURCH BE OF HELP AND PROTECTION, AND LET THOSE WHO READ, SAY ‘LORD HAVE MERCY ON KHOJA SARKIS. AMEN’, 1831. JNKJ (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews).”

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 194.

Population
19 c․

This village was populated by Armenians till the beginning of the XIX century.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 194.

Description

2 km southwest of Kzirkhana, higher by the Susanasar mount, there are the ruins of “Ohana Yeghtsi” - monastery and medieval fortress, which could well belong to the famous fortress of Grham.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 194.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Gizrkhana
Keazarkhuni