Shamlugh Beyuk :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Touz (District) / Shamlugh Beyuk (Village)

Location

Greater Shamlugh extends on the left bank of the river Zakam, 31 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,070 to 1,180 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 547.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

In the late 19th century, the village site belonged to Turkish landowner Zulghadarov.

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 11.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 547.

1770 y․

The foundation of the present-day Turkish settlement dates back to the Soviet years. It occupies the site of an Armenian village that was stripped of its population in the 1770s.