Barsghishen :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

1600 — 1812 yy․ 11 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Karvajar (District) / Barsghishen (Village)

Location

Barsghishen is situated on the altitude of 1650-1740 m, 2 km southwest of Hanshagh, on the Southern slope of the canyon of a small left tributary to the Lev.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 39.

Historical Introduction
1763 y․

The only written testimony of this village is the cadastre of Dadi Vank estates, composed in 1763.

"Jambr" Assembled and Rendered by Simeon Catholicos Yerevantsi, Vagharshapat, 1873, p. 283; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 39.

19 c․

The Kolani Kurds that established here by the end of the XIX cent, have actually simply distorted the historical toponym, pronouncing it as Baghrsagh.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 39.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Baghrsagh	19 c․
Baghrsan	1812 — 1920 yy․
Baghrsi	1812 — 1920 yy․