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Novlu 9 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashunik (District) / Maghanjugh (District) / Novlu (Village)

Location
19 c․

Novlu is situated 3 km west of Mazra, on the altitude of 1170-1220 m over the sea. It is an old village former inhabited by Armenians and renamed to Novlu after being occupied by the Kurds in the late 19th century.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 180.

Historical Introduction
17 — 18 cc․

Although Novlu is not mentioned in the list of 12 villages included into Maghanjugh district, it certainly existed since the time of the “Chronicles”.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 180-181.

Description

The only old public structure still preserved in the village is the spring, both fonts (novs) of which are cut of one piece of stone in the 16th or 17th century. Just because of this spring the village was renamed by the Kurds to Novlu.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 181.

A few finely processed stones fastened into the walls of village houses are apparently taken from older buildings.