Kalbajar Rayon

Cairt o Azerbaijan shawin Kalbajar (red) rayon. Pairt o the rayon (the daurk green area) is pairt o Nagorno-Karabakh, the local province o Martakert.

Kalbajar (Azerbaijani: Kəlbəcər) is a rayon o Azerbaijan. Kalbajar is a Kurdish name meaning Stane City. The entire region is currently unner the control o Armenie forces that caw the wastren hauf Karvajar. The eastren hauf is offeecially pairt o Nagorno-Karabakh, makin up pairt o the Martakert Province. The Azeri an Kurdish population o Kalbajar wur displaced bi the fechtin an currently live as internally displaced bodies in ither regions o Azerbaijan.

Demographics

1989 405

• Azerbaijanis 83.19% (55.082)
• Armenians 14.79% (9.794)
• Kurds 1.88% (1.248)
• Ither 1%

History

Dadivank monastery

The Armenie name o the destrict is Karvachar (Armenie: Քարվաճառ), that corresponds tae the auncient destrict o Vaykunik, ane o 12 cantons o Artsakh (historical Nagorno-Karabakh) . It wis kent as Upper-Khachen or Tsar (efter its chief toun) an aa, an wis ruled bi ane o the branches o the Hoose o Khachen, that haudit it til the Roushie conquest o the Karabakh region in the early 19t century.

In the early 17t century maist o the oreeginal Armenian population o Kalbajar wis deportit bi Abbas I an eventually Kurds sattlit the area as they did in the neeburin Qashatagh .

In the time o Kurdistan Uyezd, the Kalbajar region wis a predominantly Kurdish inhabitit area.. Efter deportation o the Kurds unner Joseph Stalin, Azeris constitutit the main pairt o the population.

As a result o the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the area wis taken bi Armenie forces in 1992. Subsequently the Azeri population fled the region.

Cultural monuments

Karvachar is rich in Armenian monuments numberin close tae 750, whilk include monasteries, kirks, chapels, fortresses, khachkars an inscriptions. The maist important o them is the monastery o Dadivank.

Unner Armenie Control

The destrict wis made intae the province o Shahumyan, ane o the 8 provinces o NKR. The province remains the least populatit o the NKR provinces wi a tot population o 2,800. The toun o Karvachar is hame tae 500 fowk.

Relatit pages

• Battle o Kelbajar

Freemit airtins

• Interactive map o Azerbaijan