ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Bartaz Monuments

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

Location

Bartaz village is located on the left bank of the Araks River.

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

Historical Introduction

Only one of the mentioned villages has to now preserved its historical name: Bartagh, presently transformed to Bartaz. It is mentioned in the list of the Tatev monastery taxpayers (1100 measures of produce).

The Chronicle of Stephanos Orbelian, Annex, Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 197.