ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Hajilar Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Touz (District) / Hajilar (Village)

Location

Hajilar is situated on the left bank of the river Asrik, about a kilometre north of the historical village of Chatakh, 29 kilometres south of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,340 to 1,410 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 531.

Historical Introduction
1770 y․

The establishment of this Turkish village traces back to the Soviet years. It was founded in the site of an Armenian village that had been stripped of its population in the 1770s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 531.

Hajilar retains the surviving parts of the walls of some old buildings, and the ruins of a mill preserved on its southern edge.