ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Parajan 4 Monuments

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

Location

This village is one of the oldest in the province. It is situated 2-km southeast of Harar, on the altitude of 1210-1290 m above the sea, at the right bank of a tributary to the Khachgetik, barely 0.5 km away of the border of Hadrut district, NKR.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p.176.

Population
19 c․

The Kurdish shepherds settled here since the 19th century. In 1914 the number of residents reached 494.

"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, p. 193 (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 176.

Armenian-Turkish Fights of 1905 to 1906
1906 y․

During the ethnic conflicts of 1906 the Kurdish inhabitants of Parajan were the most active warriors, particularly, the plunder and destruction of the Armenian Vaghaver and Arpagetik villages was caused by their hands. The population of the named villages found refuge in the most reliable Khtzaberd village, while the young men organized a group (of 14 persons) that fought against the Turks ruining their villages. The last battle took place in the environs of Parajan, near the mill. “14 brave young Armenians, fighting in the vicinity of the Turkish Farajan village and being in trouble locked themselves in the mill. They say, that upon two days of heroic resistance, the Turks set the mill on fire. The besieged preferred to be killed by their own hands. Firstly they destroyed all the arms and then stabbed themselves by their own daggers and fell like heroes. This unparalleled martyrdom that took place on 27 January, sobered even the atrocious mob.”

A-Do, Armenian-Turkish Conflicts in the Caucasus (1905-06), Yerevan, 1907, p. 242 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 176.

Type Photo
View General
Direction From the west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative