Sultanetsik Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Sultanetsik Village Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Novo-Saratovka

Location

The village site of Sultanetsik (Sultane) is supposedly located on the road leading from Nor Saratovka to Artzvashen (Bash Gyugh).

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 310.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270.

Historical Introduction

It retains the ruins of a cemetery and a small church, probable called Sourb Astvatzatzin. The village used to be one of the most famous scriptoria in Zakam District, with a great number of manuscripts copied and illustrated there.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270.

1647 y․

It is first mentioned in the colophon of a Gospel copied in 1647 by scribe Mkhitar, who was a lay person: “The Holy Gospel was written in divine inspiration from the Holy Spirit ... in Sourb Astvatzatzin Church of Sultanetsy Village, Zakam District...”

Colophons of the Armenian Manuscripts of the 17th century, vol. 3. Compiled by Hakobian, V. Yerevan, 1984, p. 247.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270.

Scriptoria
1671 y․

In 1671 scribe Mkhitar copied another two manuscripts “... at the request of kind-hearted Eve and her husband Voskan in Sourb Astvatzatzin of Sultanetsik Village, Verin Zakam, under Patriarch of Holy Gandzasar His Holiness Petros and Persian Shah Suleyman, ...this year marking widespread deaths in Verin Zakam District, where seven people died in the same family in a single day...” The spouses donated the manuscript to Sourb Astvatzatzin Church of Gharamurat’s Koosanats Convent, but in 1729 it shifted into Melik Sargis’ possession. In the 19th century, it was kept in Banants’ St. Grigor Lusavorich Church, where Barkhutariants saw it and copied its colophon (at present kept in M. Mashtots Matenadaran, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia).

A Catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran after Mashtots, vol. 2, Yerevan, 1970, manuscript No. 6759.
Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, pp. 281-282.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p.270.

1678 y․

The other manuscript mentioned was created in 1678 for Bishop Tadevos.

A Catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran after Mashtots, vol. 1, Yerevan, 1965, manuscript No. 968.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.

1709 y․

In 1709 scribes Sargis and Vardan copied another manuscript in Sultanetsik for a certain Sargis.

A Catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran after Mashtots, vol. 2, Yerevan, 1970, manuscript No. 3813.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.

1837 y․

An incomplete manuscript (Tpkhis, 1837), entitled Grigor Loru-Melikian: Bank Voskiakank, is of great importance to the history of the village. Its scribe continued it in Sultanetsik in 1844, which comes to attest that in the mid-19th century, it was still a prospering village. It remains obscure when exactly and for what reasons it was destroyed and left derelict.

A Catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran after Mashtots, vol. 2, Yerevan, 1970, manuscript No. 7501.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Sultane