ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Dash-Salahli 7 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Ghazakh (District) / Dash-Salahli (Village)

Location

Dash-Salahli is situated at the eastern foot of Mount Gag, 10 kilometres north-west of the district centre, at an altitude of 400 to 440 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.

Historical Introduction

One of the most populous villages in the district.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.

1958 y․

In 1958 the Archaeological Expedition of the History Institute of Ghazakh District, working under the supervision of M. Huseinov, unearthed the ruins of a site dating from the Mousterien Era in a cave located in the vicinity of the village, on the western slope of Mount Avey, along the frontier of the Republic of Armenia.

Huseinov, M. The Musterien Site in the Cave of Dash-Salahli. In: “Izvestya Akademii Nauk Azerbaijanskoy SSR,” 1959, No. 6, pp. 17-33, in Russian.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.

The archaeological finds mainly included stone tools such as hand cutters, scrapers, blades, etc. made of flint, basalt, heliotrope and fieldstone.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.

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

The available statistical data on the number of the local population represent the following picture:

Dates	Armenian Houses	Armenians (Male)	Armenians (Female)	Total (Armenians)	Notes	Source
1886	287	891	564	1455		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 146-147; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.
1907				1340		Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 238; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.
1914				3239		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 117; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.
1977				6174		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Baku, 1979, p. 348; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 297.