ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Jafarli Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Getabek (District) / Jafarli (Village)

Location

The village, whose historical name has fallen into oblivion, extends 14 kilometres south-west of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,380 to 1,440 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 256.

Historical Introduction
1770 y․

In the early 20th century, some cattle-breeding tribes shifted to a sedentary life and established the settlement of Jafarli in the site of a once Armenian village which had been stripped of its Armenian inhabitants in the 1770s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 256.

Population
1914 y․

In 1914 it had 302 residents.