ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Mamedalilar Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Shamkhor (District) / Mamedalilar (Village)

Location

This once Armenian-inhabited village lies 17 kilometres north-east of the district centre, at an altitude of 200 to 210 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 506.

Description
19 c․

Visiting it in the early 1890s, Barkhutariants described it in the following way, “...The largeness of the village site, whose length amounts to about a mile, suggests that it used to be a village town, densely planted with aspens, nut- and other aged trees. Its ancient dwellings are built of brick blocks, each of them 40 centimetres long and 9 centimetres thick. The digging carried out there has unearthed some ancient jugs, pitchers, other clay vessels, fragments of brick, as well as silver and copper coins. It remains vague what the present-day Turkish inhabitants of this originally Armenian village have done with the stones of the local churches and cemeteries...”

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 54.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 506.

Population
19 c․

In 1804 Mamedalilar comprised 16 Armenian houses with 55 inhabitants (29 males and 26 females), and 11 Turkish ones with 39 residents (20 males and 19 females). It was stripped of the former after some Turks had taken up residence there. With this connection, a visitor of the late 19th century writes, “...several local families moved to Gandzak about a hundred years ago.”

Collected Acts of the Caucasian Archaeological Commission, vol. 2, Tiflis, 1868, p. 596.
Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 54.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 506.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ghapanli

The statistical registers have preserved the following data regarding the village population:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1804	11	20	19	39		Collected Acts of the Caucasian Archaeological Commission, vol. 2, Tiflis, 1868, p. 596; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 506.
1886	103	524	352	876		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 82-83; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 506.
1914				1035		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 133; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 506.