Zerti Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Zerti Village Site

NKR / Kashatagh / Berdzor

Location

It extends on the left side of the river Hakari, in the north of the village.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 171.

Population
18 y․

Leaving their native village in the middle of the XVIII cent the Armenians of Zerti (Zard) settled in Georgia and established a new settlement, which was also called Zerti. Like other Armenians that established settlements in the central Georgia, the villagers of Zerti also lost their mother tongue. Presently Zerti is a village in Gori district, Georgia, populated by Armenians speaking Georgian. The Holy Virgin church built there in the XIX cent is still standing.

"Caucasus", 1903, N 134, p. 2. (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 171.

Description

Excavations of the burial mound in the vicinity of Zerti carried in 1897 revealed stone cyst burials and archaeological material of immense interest: " There is a burial mound near the village of Zerti, with a stone cyst in the centre. Besides artifacts of various assignment, found in that burial, for instance, such as spiral shaped ear rings, small pincers, cylindrical edges of the club heads, a lamp of bronze stylized as a griffon mask was also discovered."

"Caucasus", 1903, N 134, p. 2. (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 171.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Zard