ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Katos 8 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Katos (Village)

Location

This village, which has presumably preserved its historical name, is situated on the altitude of 1640-1769 m above the sea, 1.5 km southeast of Sheylanli, at a distance of about 1 km from the river (about 280 m above the riverbank).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 152.

Population
1985 y․

During the last two centuries Katos was occupied by the Kurds. While visiting the village in 1985, I met a large number of residents speaking Kurdish (as well as in Sheylanli).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 152.

Historical Introduction
1567 y․

We assume that Getuz and Katos are distorted forms of the same toponym based on the colophon of the Gospel manuscript re-written “in the Getuz village of Hakari land”. However, irrespective of this consideration, the monuments of material culture preserved in the village provide direct evidence that the history of the present-day Katos began as early as in early Middle Ages.

"List of the Manuscripts", vol. 1, Yerevan, 1965, manuscript N 4932 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 152.

Type Photo
View General
Direction From the south
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Getuz