ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Fizuli 9 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Fizuli (District)

Historical Introduction
1930 y․

The district was established in 1930. In the beginning, before 1959, the district was named in honor of the Russian army commander Koryazin, later renamed. It occupies the area of 1386 sq. km. In conformity with the data of 1986, it comprised 1 town (the administrative centre) and 71 villages.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 221.

Geographical Environment

It is bordering with the Hadrut and Martakert districts of the NKR and Jabrail, Aghjabedi and Baylagan districts of Azerbaijan. The borderline with Iran passes by the Araxes River.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 221.

Historical Introduction

In the Middle Ages, the present area of the district was included into the historical province of Artsakh, Metz Hayk. In the late medieval period, the main part of the area was included into the Armenian melikal principality (melikutyun) of Dizak.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 221.

18 — 19 cc․

Like the districts of Barda, Aghjabedi and Baylagan, the relief of Fizuli is mostly flat. Maybe, the early retreat of the Armenians from this area was conditioned mainly by impossibility to defend. In the course of time, in the XVII-XIX cent, the area was occupied by various Turkish nomadic tribes.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 221.

Population
20 c․

The Turks of this district still led nomadic way of life until the beginning of the XX cent. Of a few newly established Turkish villages, permanently settled were only the Large and Small Bahmanlus and Maralian.

K. Ohanian, From Shushi to Tavriz (Travel Notes), "Murj" 1903, N l, p. 60 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 221.

Description
1988 y․

The Armenian landmarks are not numerous. They are mostly restricted to the western comparatively mountainous part of the district, adjacent to Hadrut district, NKR, where the Armenians could withstand longer (before 1988 there remained only one village - Hogher, which had an insignificant Armenian population).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 221-222.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Karyagin