ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Asrik-Jerdakhan Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Touz (District) / Asrik-Jerdakhan (Village)

Location

The village is situated on the left bank of the river Asrik, 2.5 kilometres north-east of the famous monastery of Khoranashat (in present-day Tavush Marz of the Republic of Armenia), 14 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 740 to 810 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 529.

Historical Introduction
1770 y․

The village having been stripped of its Armenian population in the 1770s, its site became a new place of living for some stock-breeding Turkish tribes which changed to a sedentary life there in the early 20th century.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 529.

Population
1979 y․

In 1979 it had 1,722 inhabitants.