Kalbajar Rayon
Kalbajar (Azerbaijani: Kəlbəcər) is a rayon o Azerbaijan. Kalbajar is a Kurdish name meaning Stane Ceety. The entire region is currently unner the control o Armenie forces who 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.
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Demographics [edit]
1989 405
- Azerbaijanis 83.19% (55.082)
- Armenians 14.79% (9.794)
- Kurds 1.88% (1.248)
- Ither 1%
History [edit]
The Armenie name o the destrict is Karvachar (Armenie: Քարվաճառ), which corresponds tae the auncient destrict o Vaykunik, ane o 12 cantons o Artsakh (historical Nagorno-Karabakh) [1]. It wis an aa kent as Upper-Khachen or Tsar (efter its chief toun) an was ruled bi ane o the branches o the Hoose o Khachen, who held it till the Roushie conquest o the Karabakh region in the early 19t century [1].
In the early 17t century maist o the oreeginal Armenian population o Kalbajar wis deportit bi Abbas I an eventually Kurds settled the aurie as they did in the neighborin Qashatagh [1].
In the time o Kurdistan Uyezd, the Kalbajar region wis a predominantly Kurdish inhabitit aurie.[2]. 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 aurie wis taken bi Armenie forces in 1992. Subsequently the Azeri population fled the region.
Cultural monuments [edit]
Karvachar is rich in Armenian monuments numberin close tae 750, which include monasteries, kirks, chapels, fortresses, khachkars an inscriptions [1]. The maist important o them is the monastery o Dadivank [1].
Unner Armenie Control [edit]
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 total population o 2,800. The toun o Karvachar is hame tae 500 fowk.[3]
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References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Robert H. Hewsen, Armenia: A Historical Atlas. The University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 40, 101-102, 264-265.
- ↑ Thomas Glotz, Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic, 496 pp., M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1998, ISBN 0765602431, p.322
- ↑ Armeniapedia, Karvachar
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