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Chatakh Monuments

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Location

Chatakh is situated on the left bank of the river Asrik, 30 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,350 to 1,450 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 530.

Historical Introduction
1606 y․

A versified colophon by Bishop David Geghametsy mentions it as an Armenian-inhabited village. According to it, during the period between Shah Abbas I’s triumphant struggle against the Turks and the famine of 1606, the inhabitants of Chatakh abandoned their birthplace and resettled in the present-day village of Metz Gharamurat in Getabek District. With this respect, a record states, “…When the Turks were finally defeated, they left Chatakh Village for Metz Gharamurat, Nerkin Shen remaining devastated and derelict…”

Colophons of the Armenian Manuscripts of the 17th century, vol. 1. Compiled by Hakobian, V., Hovhannissian, A. Yerevan, 1974, p. 368.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 530.