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NKR (Country) / Fizuli (District) / Hogher (Village)

Location
1938 y․

Before 1938, the Armenian village Hogher (Vogher) was included into the district of Hadrut (NKR), later - into the Fizuli (Koryagin) district of Azerbaijan. The village is situated at the right riverside of the Ishkhanaget, on the northeastern slope of Veysaberd, on the altitude of 620-780 m above the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.

Description
1890 y․

The cemetery surrounding the Surb Astvatzatzin (Holy Virgin) church of the village is situated on the elevation (780 m) in the southern side of the village. Visiting the village in about 1890, Makar Bishop Barkhutariants, observed that the residents of the village “were aborigines” and the building of the “parish church was incomplete”.

M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 71.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.

Population
1938 y․

It is typical, and at the same time natural, that the Armenian exodus started after 1938 when the village was subordinated to the Fizuli district with prevailing Turkish population. By the eighties, there remained only three or four Armenian families, while the Turks occupied the empty houses of the Armenians. In 1986 Hogher, almost entirely populated by the Turks had 366 residents.

Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol. X, Baku, 1987, p. 259 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.

Historical Introduction
1989 — 1992 yy․

Since 1989, Hogher totally emptied of Armenians was turned to a military standpoint threatening the Jrakus, Dudukchi, Drakhtik and other villages of Hadrut, NKR. It was disarmed on 31 March 1992 when the Artsakh Liberation Army fighters took over the village.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.

Population
1988 y․

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Vogher

In conformity with the sources the number of Armenian residents looked as follows:

Dates	Armenian Houses	Armenians (Male)	Armenians (Female)	Total (Armenians)	Notes	Source
1889		128	98	226		SCHARA, F. 56, L. 1, C. 8583, p. 42-43 (in Arm.); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.
1897	65					A-Do, Armenian Turkish Conflict in the Caucasus (1905-1906), Yerevan, 1907, p. 172 (in Arm.); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.
1914				630		"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, p. 110 (in Russian); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.
1921	139	288	312	600		M. M. Karapetian, Ethnic Structure of the Population of Nagorno Karabakh in 1921 (in Compliance with the Agricultural Census of 1921 in Azerbaijan), Yerevan, 1991, p. 15 (in Russian); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Regi