Kotratz (Broken) Bridge :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Kotratz (Broken) Bridge 12 — 13 cc․

NKR / Kashatagh / Malkhalaf

Location

Not far from the village there is a ruined medieval bridge with many spans.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 171.

The bridge used to stretch over the river Hakari, south-west of Meghvadzor Village, Kashatagh District, Republic of Artsakh (RMK).
Geographical coordinates: N 39°34°02.04,°° E 46°34°08.46.°°

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 32.

Description
1885 y․

“Senegh Kyopri [Kotratz Bridge], which is totally reduced to ruins now, has only a single standing wall without any inscription. Apparently, once it represented an immense bridge built quite strongly and beautifully, but alas, it proved unable to resist the fierce current of the Hagari... it is constructed of finely-finished black stone.” Exactly a century later, in 1985, the only vestige of this multi-span bridge was its right-end span (length: 7.77 metres; width: 3.25 metres), which is now (2009) destroyed.

Ter-Gaspariants, A. Travel to Ghapan. In: Meghu Hayastani, 1885, No. 101, p. 3 (the original in Armenian).
Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 32.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 171.

Historical Introduction
12 — 13 cc․

The composition and building peculiarities of the bridge are typical of the 12th to 13th centuries.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 32.

Type Photo
Author Hovhannes Badalian
Source Colour Negative
Date 1985 y․

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

Type Measurement
Author Ashot Hakobian
Source Sketch

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Sngh-Keorpi