ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Tzobi 2 Monuments

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

Location

Tzobi is situated on the southern slope of a mountain spur, at the left bank of the right hand tribu tary to Basutajur.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 197.

Historical Introduction

Tzobi is one of the oldest villages in the area. It is mentioned by St. Orbelian already in the list of the Kovsakan district taxpayers (tax equal to 12 dahekan).

St. Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 402.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 197.

The nomads that settled here in the late XVIII century after the village was deserted by Armenians called the village Sobi or Sobu. The identity of the toponyms Tzobi and Sobu is proved.

G. M. Grigorian, On the topography of a Number of Settlements of the Historical Syunik, "Historical-Philological Journal", 1966, N 4, p. 235.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 197.

Description

Unfortunately, the Turkish nomads that established in this village had destroyed any traces of Armenian culture.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 197.

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Sobi
Sobu