Gortagarak Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Gortagarak Village Site

NKR / Karvajar / Yanshagh

Location

Traces of an ancient settlement are outlined on the southern and western shores of lake Gortagarak.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 36.

Description

It is not excluded that this was the Gortagarak, or Ughtapan, village mentioned by Sarkis Jalaliants: "Climbing over the slopes of the mount Mrav we reached a place, which was earlier called Gortagarak, and now they call it Ughtapan. These ruins are situated above Dadi Vank, in the firm mountains of Mrav, near the lake that the Tajiks (i. e. Turks) call Ghanligol, after the murder, which took place near that very lake, and the bodies were thrown into the water. This place had once been a refuge to numerous Christians fleeing from the wild Caucasian highlanders...”

Sargis Archbishop Jalaliants, A Journey to Metzn Hayastan, part 1, Tiflis, 1842, p. 221; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 36.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ughtapan