Oloda Village Site :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Oloda Village Site

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Khavet

Location

In a deep gorge extending on the right bank of the river Kur, 3 kilometres north-west of Khavet, the ruins of the village site of Oloda are located.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 224.

Historical Introduction
1595 y․

Around the late Middle Ages, it used to represent a prospering village. As attested by the Ottoman tax list of 1595, it comprised a population of 21 houses and paid 8,000 akches to the State Treasury. Judging from the list of the local house proprietors, we may assume that in 1595 Oloda was a purely Armenian-inhabited village, for it includes names (Shahmurad, Anania, Gabriel) generally wide-spread in Armenian localities despite their foreign origin (mention is also made of Priest Hakob).