ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Shamlugh Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Touz (District) / Shamlugh (Village)

Location

The village is located 1.5 kilometres south-west of the historical village of Chatakh, 31 kilometres south of the district centre, between 1,460 and 1,540 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 547.

Population
1770 y․

The natives abandoned their birthplace in the 1770s and resettled in Shulaver. They gave one of the local quarters the name of their native village, i.e. ‘Shmegh,’ which has been preserved untill today.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 547.

Nineteen families from Shamlugh (Shmegh) in origin are known to live in Shulaver, Marneul District, Republic of Georgia.

Aslanian, S., Karapetian, S. Shulaver. Yerevan, 2002, pp. 27-28.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 547.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Shmegh