Artaship Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Artaship Village Site

NKR / Kashatagh / Seydlyar

Description

In the Soviet years, the Turkish-speaking Kurds "diligently" destroyed all the Armenian churches and cemeteries, using their stones in the construction of their cattle-houses and dwellings.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 168-169.

A totally preserved gravestone was fastened into the wall of the spring in the Artaship (Ardashep) village. Another fragmented and finely carved inscribed khachkar (60x64x16,5 cm) was fastened into the wall of the post-house in the same village. This fragment was taken away from the masonry in 1995, when the Armenians liberated the area and put near the spring in the center of the village.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 168-169.

Historical Introduction
1615 y․

By the way, this village was mentioned in the colophon of a manuscript refreshed by Monk Kasbar in 1615 “in the land of Maghayoz, in the Artaship village...”

"Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts of the 17th cent", vol. 1, Yerevan, 1976, p. 561.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 169.

1637 y․

It should be mentioned that another manuscript Gospel had been refreshed here in 1637. The colophon of the latter uses another form of the toponym: “It was renovated again by the hand of monk Sarkis in year 1637 in the land of Maghayuz, in the Artayshib village.”

"Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts of the 17th cent", vol. B, Yerevan, 1978, p. 699.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 169.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ardashevi