Karvajar (Kalbajar) province

    Historical village Mrjman is situated 9.5 km southeast of Dadi Vank, in the source of Aragjur, tributary of the Trtu. The vicinity is woody, with numerous creeks spurting out of the ground. Despite numerous historical monuments, which have witnessed to the existence of this village since at least the XII-XIII cent., it is recorded for the first time in 1729 only in the colophon of the manuscript Typicon "Mashtots"). The colophon was copied there by Bishop Makar at the end of the XIX cent. in the village of Maghavuz of Jraberd region: "I, Markos, son of Father Melikset of Mrchman... Year 1729.
    Consequently, the villages situated in the eastern outskirts of the present-day Karvajar, such as Mrjman remained Armenian until at least the second quarter of the XVIIIcent.
    Although Mrjman was not mentioned in the cadastre of monastery estates compiled by catholicos Simeon in the middle of the XVIIIcent., the document of 1905 proved that it also belonged to the monastery (mentioned as Marjumak).
    In 1906 the population of Mrjman-Marjumak consisted of 89 Kurds. During the Soviet period the latter were totally assimilated with Turks.
    Up to the end of the seventies there were two vaulted churches: one inside the village and the second - 1 km east of it. The latter had a building inscription of 9 lines, which contained the dating: 1304.
    Both the churches and the Armenian cemetery inside the village are now totally demolished. In stead we saw many houses and cattle sheds, the walls of which were built of stones ornamented with crosses and relieves.
    A few fragmented and removed crosses reminding that once there had been an Armenian cemetery are situated 3 km north of Mrjman, within the area of the Agghaya village.