Dzor :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

7 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashunik (District) / Dzor (Village)

Location

This small but obviously old village is squeezed between bare rocks at the left bank of the Kashuni River in the narrowest place of the gorge.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

Historical Introduction

The Kurds that established here call it Zor. It is not difficult to guess that this is the distortion of the Armenian toponym Dzor (‘Gorge’), to which the location totally complies.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

Description

Two ruined mills are situated at the right bank of the river.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 183.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Zor