Moorjikan Village Site :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Moorjikan Village Site

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Diliska

Location

At the edge of a gorge extending on the left bank of the river Parvana, 2 kilometres north of Diliska lie the ruins of the medieval village site of Moorjikan with those of a cemetery and a semi-destroyed uni-nave church.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 162.

Historical Introduction
1595 y․

In 1595 Moorjikan represented a prosperous place of 6 houses and paid 11,000 akches to the state.

“გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი”, էջ 174-175: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 162.

Monuments
1960 y․

In the early 1960s, fragments of statuettes and other archaeological finds were unearthed from a ruined mausoleum found in this village site. The study of these artifacts has revealed that they date from the 8th to 6th centuries B.C. and form part of the cultural heritage of the Araratian (Urartu) Kingdom.