Daya-Gharabulagh :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

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Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Getabek (District) / Daya-Gharabulagh (Village)

Location

The village lies 6 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,430 to 1,550 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 240.

Historical Introduction
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Stripped of its Armenian inhabitants in the ‘70s of the 18th century, the abandoned village later served as a summer encampment for some stock-breeding Turkish tribes which eventually settled down there in the late 1880s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 240.

The neighbourhood of the village, whose historical Armenian name has sunk into oblivion, abounds in a wide variety of centuries-old Armenian monuments.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 240.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Bala-Gharabulagh

Population:

Dates	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1914	840		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 117; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 240.
1977	1031		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Baku, 1979, p. 394; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 240.