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Atkhuyk Monuments

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

Location

Judging from the tithe (12 dahekan) Atkhuyk was one of the major villages of Kashunik. It is situated on a sunny slope, 1.5 km south of Prjants.

St. Orbelian, History of Syunik, Yerevan, 1986, p. 401.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 186.

Historical Introduction

The present-day Turkish name is Atkiz. The identity of Atkhuyr and Atkiz is a proven fact.

A. Gharagyozian, On the Topography of the Baghk and Kashunik Provinces of Syunik", "Banber of the Yerevan University", 1978, N 3, p. 197.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 186.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Atkiz