ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Zahmetkend Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Getabek (District) / Zahmetkend (Village)

Location

The village, whose historical name has sunk into oblivion, is situated on the left bank of the river Jagir (Jker), 13 kilometres north of the district centre, between 1,400 and 1,450 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 292.

Historical Introduction

It was established in the early 20th century in the site of an Armenian village devastated and abandoned in the 1770s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 292.

Population
1979 y․

In 1979 the purely Turkish village had 867 inhabitants.