ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Baylakan Monuments

NKR (Country) / Baylakan (District)

Historical Introduction

The Zhdanov administrative district was established in the southeastern side of the historical Artsakh province of Armenia in 1939. It covered the area of 1131 sq. km. In 1963, it was merged with the neighboring Imishli district, but in 1964, it was separated again and turned to an administrative entity. It comprises one town - the administrative centre Baylagan (former Zhdanov, a village before 1932, a town type settlement in 1933-1966, and a town afterwards) and 39 villages (as of 1979).

Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol. IV, Baku, 1980, p. 265 (in Azrb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 219:

Geographical Environment

It is bordering with the Aghjabedi, Fizuli, Imishli and Zardob districts of Azerbaijan and with Iran - through the Araxes River.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 219.

Historical Introduction

The present-day area of the district, with its exclusively level surface was practically devoid of Armenians in the late Middle Ages already. Like Armenians of the other parts of the Kura-Araxes valley, residents of this part of the valley withdrew to the mountainous parts of Artsakh and fortified there.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 219.

Description

Considerable part of the Baylakan district was irrigated since the antiquity by waters of the ancient channel Gavur-Arch. However, the most interesting site here is the ancient city of Belukan (or Baylakan/ currently Baylagan) also situated within this district.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 219.

Population
1988 y․

The small number of Armenian families residing in the administrative centre, or the villages Khachinstroy and railway station Dashburun were forcibly displaced in 1988.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 220.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
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