ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Basharat 1 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashunik (District) / Basharat (Village)

Location

The village is situated on the sunny side of the eastern slope of mount Amutegh, on the altitude of 1030-1160 m over the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 188.

Historical Introduction
18 c․

Certainly, Basharat is not the historical name of the village, though it seems that this toponym has survived at least from the early 18th century.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 188.

Resettlement

Leaving the village in the second half of the same century part of Armenians settled in the Jalet village of the historical Kapaghak and took the family name Basharatian/ Pasaratian (which is certified by numerous tombstones).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 188.

Monuments

The village church had been decayed in the late 19th century already. Presently no trace of it is preserved.

M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 401-402.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 189.

Population

The number of Turkish nomads that moved to the deserted village had always been insignificant. In 1914 Basharat had 43 residents only while in 1976 their number reached 256.

"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, p. 97 (in Russian).
Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol II, Baku, 1978, p. 48 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 189.

Armenian-Turkish Fights of 1905 to 1906
1905 y․

In spite of the sparse population Basharat was one of the most insurgent villages during the conflict of 1905-1906, that showed resistance to the government troops and was punished for it: “On the 16th day of this month, when the Cossack squadrons entered the Turkish village of Basharat (in Zangezur district) they opened fire on the Cossacks. The Cossacks had to respond and retaliated by mortars. There are destroyed houses and casualties among the Turks.”