ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

The area in the lower course of the Voghji River Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kovsakan (District) / The area in the lower course of the Voghji River (Area)

Description

3-4 km away of the town of Kapan the Voghji enters into the Zangelan District, and flows up to the confluence with the Araxes taking only a few insignificant tributaries. The majority of the villages situated along both banks of this river were emptied of Armenians in the late XVIII century.

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

The left bank is occupied by the villages (in succession) Chinari (Seidlar), Godaklar, Namilar, Taghili, Genlik, Malatkeshin, Ichari-Mushlan, Kosakan and Jahangirbekli; all of them are apparently old villages earlier populated by Armenians and reinhabited and renamed by the Turks during the past two centuries.

A. Gharagyozian expressed the opinion the whole district was later renamed after the village (A. Gharagyozian, The Topography of the District of Kovsakan in the X cent. Syunik Province. “Lraber of Public Sciences” 1980, N 12, p. 100 in Armenian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 195.

The villages at the right riverside are much more numerous: Ghazanchi, Aghkand, Geyali, Khrdaghshlagh, Sharikan, Otuzinji, Gon (Gunghshlagh), Pirveysli, Janbar, Burunlu, Geyali (2nd), Nokhutlu, Shayifli, Safarlar, Najaflaar, Yusiflar, Gharagol, Chakhuryurd, Nor- geghn (Tazakand), Sarighshlagh, Kechikli, Beshdali, Zangelan (the administrative center), Ghrekh-Mushlan, Udgun and Turabad. In the late medieval period all of the mentioned villages were included into the Gilaberd district. Some of them (e.g. Gun, Nokhutlu, Chkhururd, Norgegh) were included into the list of produce tithe payers subject to the Tatev monastery. Gon was also recorded in the list of the Kovsakan district taxpayers compiled by St. Orbelian (with tax amounting to 5 dahekan).

The Chronicle of Stephanos Orbelian, Annex, Yerevan, 1942, p. 42.
St. Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 402.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 195.