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Harsnakar Monuments

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Location

This Turkish settlement is located between the villages of Tapan and Hatstap, 18 kilometres south-west of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,650 to 1,690 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 156.

Historical Introduction

The elderly inhabitants of the adjacent villages that were Armenian-populated until the deportation of 1989 remembered the original name of present-day Galin-Gaya, i.e. Harsnakar. Unfortunately, however, we failed to find any written sources attesting to it.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 156.

18 c․

Harsnakar was stripped of its Armenian population in the mid-18th century.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 156.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Galin-Gaya