Azizank Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Azizank Village Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Ghoshabulagh

Location

The village of Azizank (Zada), situated 3 kilometres north-east of Korkh.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 254.

Description
1770 y․

It was stripped of its Armenian inhabitants in the 1770s (some of them moved to Shulaver, as attested by S. Kamalian): “Mounting the horses, we moved eastward from the mountain pasture of Ojagh Ghuli and arrived at the devastated village site of Azizants. Totally lying in ruins, it had some yards and a cemetery extending on the left of a road leading to a mine. The latter retained some cross-stones with their reliefs fragmented and epitaphs distorted. One of them, representing a magnificent white stone, had been broken to pieces by some savages.”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 12.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 254.

Kamalian goes on saying, “The Turks also refer to Azizants Village by the names of Azizlu, or Zada, but the Armenians call it Azazandz. The local people refer to Kalantar’s family, now dwelling in Shulaver, by the name of Ezank, or Ezants: is it not a version of the word of Azizank? The inhabitants of Shulaver shorten Azizamia for Zamia in their curses. Probably, the ancestors of Kalantar’s family emigrated from Azizants or Azizlu Village, or perhaps, they had a prominent relative named Aziz, for they were commonly referred to as fair-haired Aziz’s family...”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 13.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 255.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Zada
Azizlu
Azazandz
Zank
Zants