Jabrayil :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

12 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Jabrayil (District)

Historical Introduction

This district was established in 1930. It occupies the territory of 1050 sq. km, annexed to Azerbaijan after the establishment of the Soviet power. In 1987 the district comprised one town (the administrative centre, which had received the status of a town in 1980), and 77 villages.816 Historically, it included the southern part of the medieval Myus Haband (Other Haband/ Belukan or later Dizak) province of Artsakh.

Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol. X, Baku, 1987, p. 406-407 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 225.

Description
1875 y․

In the pre-Soviet period the present area of the district entered into the Jabrail uyezd, formed in 1875, which was even larger, and included several Armenian villages in the south of the Hadrut district, NKR.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 225.

Population
20 c․

It is worth mentioning that until the beginning of the XX cent, the agricultural population of the district consisted of Armenians and a small number of Russians, while the Turkish tribes that occupied the major part of the district were leading nomadic life. “Agriculturers are the Armenians and Russian immigrants - molokans. The Tatar population is almost entirely nomadic...” said the contemporaneous press. Consequently, the majority of the villages included into the district as of the state of 1987 were established during the Soviet period.