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A BOOK ABOUT ARMENIAN MONUMENTS OF SHAHUMIAN REGION TO BE PUBLISHED
ARMENPRESS
13 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS: 20 years have passed from the collapse
of Shahumian Region. Deputy Chairman of M. Abeghyan Institute of
Literature Vardan Ghevrikyan said we should value our losses and
remember similar days from the viewpoint of preserving the historical
culture. "We should speak of losses too, or else impression is
formed that we have been an aggressor, and have only occupied without
conceding anything," he said.
Monument expert Samvel Karapetyan has been to this region for three
times. "For the first time I have been here in 1978, from 1980 I have
studied the side more thoroughly, and my last visit was in 1989. I
have managed to be in all villages, and soon a large volume on that
topic will be published, as the territory is very rich in monuments,
even in Turkish-populated villages Armenian cross-stones were exhibited
in museums," he said. Samvel Karapetyan noted that first of all every
Armenian should perfectly know his/her homeland not to lose an inch
of land in future.
In antiquity Shahumian Region was a part of Artsakh; in the Middle Ages
it was part of the principality of Khachen; in the 17-18th centuries
the territory formed part of Melik-Abovian dynasty's melikdom of
Gulistan, with its capital in the fortress of that name.
During Soviet times in the area was renamed after the Armenian
Bolshevik Stepan Shahumyan, its administrative center taking the
same name.
By the 1990s the population of Shahumian district was almost
exclusively Armenian by language and ethnicity, though the area was
not included within the boundaries of theNagorno-Karabakh Autonomous
Oblast by the Soviet Union.
In the spring-summer of 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev ordered
Operation Ring, in which the Soviet Red Army surrounded some of the
area's Armenian villages and violently deported their inhabitants
to Armenia.
Approximately 17,000 Armenians living in Shahumian's twenty-three
villages were deported out of the region.
In December 1991 with the Soviet Union imploding, Shahumian was claimed
by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and became the focus for considerable
fighting. This reached a climax in summer 1992 when most of the area
was retaken by the Azerbaijan army. Damage was severe and the Armenian
population fled.
From: Baghdasarian
ARMENPRESS
13 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS: 20 years have passed from the collapse
of Shahumian Region. Deputy Chairman of M. Abeghyan Institute of
Literature Vardan Ghevrikyan said we should value our losses and
remember similar days from the viewpoint of preserving the historical
culture. "We should speak of losses too, or else impression is
formed that we have been an aggressor, and have only occupied without
conceding anything," he said.
Monument expert Samvel Karapetyan has been to this region for three
times. "For the first time I have been here in 1978, from 1980 I have
studied the side more thoroughly, and my last visit was in 1989. I
have managed to be in all villages, and soon a large volume on that
topic will be published, as the territory is very rich in monuments,
even in Turkish-populated villages Armenian cross-stones were exhibited
in museums," he said. Samvel Karapetyan noted that first of all every
Armenian should perfectly know his/her homeland not to lose an inch
of land in future.
In antiquity Shahumian Region was a part of Artsakh; in the Middle Ages
it was part of the principality of Khachen; in the 17-18th centuries
the territory formed part of Melik-Abovian dynasty's melikdom of
Gulistan, with its capital in the fortress of that name.
During Soviet times in the area was renamed after the Armenian
Bolshevik Stepan Shahumyan, its administrative center taking the
same name.
By the 1990s the population of Shahumian district was almost
exclusively Armenian by language and ethnicity, though the area was
not included within the boundaries of theNagorno-Karabakh Autonomous
Oblast by the Soviet Union.
In the spring-summer of 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev ordered
Operation Ring, in which the Soviet Red Army surrounded some of the
area's Armenian villages and violently deported their inhabitants
to Armenia.
Approximately 17,000 Armenians living in Shahumian's twenty-three
villages were deported out of the region.
In December 1991 with the Soviet Union imploding, Shahumian was claimed
by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and became the focus for considerable
fighting. This reached a climax in summer 1992 when most of the area
was retaken by the Azerbaijan army. Damage was severe and the Armenian
population fled.
From: Baghdasarian