ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Alghulishen 3 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Alghulishen (Village)

Location

It is situated at the source of one of the Hakari tributaries, on the altitude of 1350-1450 m above the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 166.

Population
1918 y․

Alghulishen was one of the rare villages within the whole province, which was inhabited by Armenians till 1918.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 166.

Description
19 — 20 yy․

The historical name of the village is lost. Various deeds executed in the XIX-XX cent mention the village as Alghuli (Alighuli).

Without any substantiation writer S. Khanzadian identified this village with the village Aghakhird, mentioned by Orbelian (province of Haband), see "Sovetakan Hayastan", Magazine, p. 26.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.

Population
1905 y․

Since its establishment the village was populated exclusively by Armenians. The number of its inhabitants was continuously rising till the Armenian-Turkish conflicts of 1905-1906.

M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 403.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.

Description
19 c․

Describing Alghulishen in the end of the 19th century one of the visitors noted: “Alighuli is an Armenian village situated on a sunny little plateau. This village is very far from other Armenian villages -over 30 verstas, it consists of 100 households, has a poor shabby church and a priest. Over twenty villages in the woods surrounding the village are occupied by brigand Turkish and Kurdish tribes...”

"Nor Dar", 1899, N 64, p. 3.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.

Historical Introduction
1905 y․

As a village inhabited exclusively by Armenians Alghulishen survived till 1905, when “Alighuli was besieged by a large number of local and nomadic Tarakama Muslims. The village resisted heroically during two full days, preceding the arrival of the troops from Goris, although most of it was already plundered and set on fire. When the troops finally arrived, the Turks withdrew with heavy losses. Armenians had a large number of victims too... In spite of such an end to the battle, the Armenians, thinking that there wasn’t any possibility of further life in that village, left everything and moved to seek fortune in other places.” As witnessed by Nerses, preceptor of the Tatev monastery, the losses of Armenians in Alghuli were “10 people murdered, 20 houses burnt and half of the village plundered...” Owing to the arrival of Russian troops (Cossacks) the nomads were thrown away with large losses: “... the Turks had over one hundred killed and wounded...”

A-Do, Armenian-Turkish Conflicts of 1905-1906 in the Caucasus, Yerevan, 1907, p. 263.
"Murj" magazine, 1905, N 10, p. 106.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.

Population
1906 y․

The residents of Alghuli resettled mainly in the Khnatzakh and Berdadzor villages. As testified by an eye-witness in 1906 “Alghulishen of the Haji-Samlu district, the dramatic situation of which I have already described, is now emptied of Armenians. Those of Armenians who remained, also left the village escorted by the Cossacks - for a certain fee. 20-25 households moved to Khnatzakh, others left for the Gharaghshlah village.” We are informed that a few years later the villagers of Alghuli, like the residents of Minkand, Harar, Zeyva and Khoznavar, that occurred under the same circumstances, little by little came back to their old homes turned to ashes, so by 1914 the village had 347 residents. The latter had been provided the opportunity of living in their homeland till 1918 only, when they were forcibly and finally displaced. During the Soviet period the village was resettled by Kurds and Turks, that moved from the neighboring villages.

"Mshak", 1906, N2, Jan. 4, p. 2; N 56, Mar. 14.
"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, p. 87 (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Alghuli
Alighuli

Population:

Dates	Armenian Houses	Armenians (Male)	Armenians (Female)	Total (Armenians)	Notes	Source
1850	21	125	100	225		SCHARA, F. 56, L. 1, Book 2596; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1876				487		SCHARA, F. 56, L. 1, Book 6775, p. 105-106; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1886	76	356	287	643		"Update of Statistical Data Derived from the Household Lists of the Caucasian Settlements. Yelisavetpol Province", Tiflis, 1888, p. 136-137 (in Russian); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1889		372	286	658		SCHARA, F. 56, L. 14, Book 8583, p. 39-40; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1901		518	337	855		M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 403; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1904				412		SCHARA, F. 56, L. 14, Book 205, p. 235-236; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1905	100	561	423	984		SCHARA, F. 56, L. 1, Book l0403, p. 54-55; see also A-Do, Armenian-Turkish Conflicts of 1905-1906 in the Caucasus, Yerevan, 1907, p. 261; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1914				347		"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, (in Russian); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.
1918				1012		SCHARA, F. 150, L. 1, Book 59, p. 5; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.