ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Verin Karhat 6 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Dashkesan (District) / Verin Karhat (Village)

Location

The village extends on the slightly slanting and mostly south-facing slope of a gorge lying on the left bank of the river Artinajur, 4 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,480 to 1,640 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 217.

Historical Introduction

The area retains several simple cross-stones which are typical of the period between the 10th and 11th centuries. This suggests that beginning with at least the Middle Ages, an Armenian-inhabited village existed in the territory of what is present-day Verin Karhat.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 217.

1894 y․

Supposedly, it was stripped of its residents in the second half of the 18th century and was re-populated between 1894 and 1895, when some Armenian families from Nerkin Karhat founded a new village there and named it Verin Karhat.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 217.

Type Photo
View Partial view
Direction From the south-east
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

As we have already mentioned, the number of the populations of Nerkin and Verin Karhat Villages is generally presented as merged together. It is only in the following years that the available statistical sources separate the residents of Verin Karhat from

Dates	Armenian Houses	Armenians (Male)	Armenians (Female)	Total (Armenians)	Notes	Source
1907				691		Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 237. In: Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 217.
1908	82	385	309	694		National Archives of Armenia, fund 35, list 1, file 559, p. 10. In: Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 217.
1910		391	317	708		National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3917, pp. 58-59. In: Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 217.
1914				661		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 116. In: Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 217.