ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Vanotsa 7 Monuments

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

Historical Introduction

Some researchers (M. Hasratian, S. Khanzadian) think that the Vanotsa village mentioned by St. Orbelian corresponds to the present-day Jijimli. We are not informed of any written record, which would confirm this assumption. Probably, this opinion was based on the oral evidence provided by the Armenians of the neighboring villages, which might be accepted as rather reliable source.

Morus Hasratian, Historical-Archaeological Researches, p. 155.
S. Khanzadian, What the Stones Tell, "Sovetakan Hayastan", magazine, 1984, N 6, p. 31 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 176.

Description

Generally, there are two Jijimlis - the Upper and the Lower, or Large and Small.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 176.

Location

The old village, which is presumed to be the historical Vanotsa, is the Upper (or Large) Jijimli. It is situated not far from Kornidzor - the village of Goris district of the RA, 3.5 km southeast of it, barely 88 m away of the Armenian State boundary, at the right bank of a stream flowing into the Hakari River, 1010-1090 m above the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 176.

Population
18 c․

Probably, Vanotsa had also been emptied of Armenians in the second half of the 18th century and populated by the Sunni Muslim Turkish tribes. The latter had always, even in the years of relative peace, been hijacking the cattle of the Armenian villages, but during the ethnic conflicts of the end of 1905 the plunder took unprecedented scale. As witnessed by the contemporary: “the residents of Jijimlu villages had been Sunni Muslims, naturally, bred in milder morals than the Shiahs, but that didn’t prevent them from the temptation of plunder and taking advantage of the situation, which served the cause of their destruction. The inhabitants of Jijimlu hijacked cows from the meadows of Kornidzor and other villages. But they were not satisfied by the common stealth. They descended on the herd grazing in the meadow of the Tegh village on Dec. 17, and this was the reason that the Armenians in their turn attacked both Jijimlus.” The daily, which had reported on these events, then noted that “the residents of Jijimlu hijacked the cattle of the local population on 17 December and the latter wiped out both Jijimlus, and killed 15 Turks...”

A-Do, Armenian-Turkish Conflicts in the Caucasus (1905-06), Yerevan, 1907, p. 268 (in Arm.).
"Mshak", 1906, N 5, Jan. 11, p. 1 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 176.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Jijimli
Verin Jijimli
Nerkin Jijimli
Mets Jijimli
Pokr Jijimli