Khachi Pos Village Site :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khachi Pos Village Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Mirzik

Location

Khachi Pos lies on the slope of a high, wooded hill named Metz Bloor (i.e. the Armenian equivalent for ‘Big Hill’), a kilometre south-east of Mirzik.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh. Yerevan, 2007, p. 426.

Name Origin

The name of 'Khachi Pos,' i.e. the Armenian equivalent for ‘Pit of Cross,’ derives from a cross-stone lying in an opening in the ground. In 1970 an inhabitant of Voskanapat placed it over a spring he himself had built on the road leading to the village.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh. Yerevan, 2007, p. 426.

Historical Introduction

Recently, while having water pipes extended through the hill slope, the villagers unearthed a secret underground passage leading from the hilltop to a nearby canal.