ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Morukhlu Monuments

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

Location

The village is situated on the west-facing slope of a gorge lying on the right bank of the river Legharak, 18 kilometres north of the district centre (“...the villages of Samanlu and Merekhlu, that lay on the edge of the slope, on the right bank of the river”).

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 17.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 268.

Population
1770 y․

By 1890 the village, which had been stripped of its Armenian population in the 1770s, had become a place of permanent residence for some stock-breeders of Turkish origin.