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History of Goris

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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal">There are different explanations of the name. It is supposed that the name comes from the Indo-European pre language words "gor"(rock), "es" (to be), i.e. Goris "Kyores" means a rocky place. There was a dwelling in the ancient times in the same area of the town. The humankind settled here since the Stone Age. Goris was first mentioned in the history by the Urartian period. King Rusa I (8th century B.C.) left a cuneiform, where he mentioned that among the 23 countries conquered by him, "Goristsa" country was one of them. The scientists suppose that it is the same Goris.

The old small town of Goris is famous for its thousands of dwellings carved into the rock. In 401 BC, during the retreat of the Ten Thousand (Anabasis), Xenophon passed through Armenia, in his account of the expedition he mentions the Armenian troglodytes of Khndzoresk and Goris.

During the Middle Ages, the town-settlement was situated in the eastern part of the present Goris, on the left bank of Goris river. It was called old Goirs and coincided with one of the villages of Goru and Goraik mentioned by Stepanos Orbelyan (13th century).

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