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Grave-stone

Grave-stone 1673 y․

NKR / Tartar / Begum-Sarov

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1673 y․

“THIS GRAVESTONE TO MELIK, 1673.”

M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 33.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 200. Certainly, this tomb of 1673 cannot testify to the old age of the village, yet it is much older than any enforced migration or religious conversion taken place here and in the entire area along the left riverside of the Kura in the XVIII century. This is another proof to the fact that the Sarov population was aborigine”.