Aghdaban :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

2 Monuments

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

Historical Introduction
19 c․

Azerbaijanian villages Aghdaban, and the neighboring Chayghovushan were established at the end of the XIX cent. During the Soviet period these two villages situated within Martakert District of Nagorno-Karabakh were annexed to Kalbajar District as an enclave.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 74.

Description
1894 y․

The vicinity of Aghdaban was investigated by Khachik preceptor Dadian in 1894 already. Two inscribed khachkars of great historical significance and certain aesthetic value discovered by Dadian were situated at some distance from each other.