Kosakan :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

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Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kovsakan (District) / Kosakan (Village)

Location

Kosakan Village is located on the left bank of the Voghji River.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 195. A. Gharagyozian expressed the opinion the whole district was later renamed after the village (A. Gharagyozian, The Topography of the District of Kovsakan in the X cent. Syunik Province. "Lraber of Public Sciences" 1980, N12, p. 100, in Armenian).

Description

It was a Turkish village founded in an old Armenian village site in the 19th century. The Turkish name of the village is only about 200 years old.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 195.