ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Ghajar 1 Monuments

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

Historical Introduction

It is acknowledged that for the purpose of kidnap and plunder the residents of the Turkish villages of Fizuli made systematical raids on the Armenian villages. Most famous of these hijackers were the villagers of Ghajar, Dilagarda and Veysalu.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 224.

Mass media of the pre-Soviet period were full of reports of the crimes committed by them. Specifically, the Turks settling in the tents in the environs of Dilagarda were maily occupied with hijack, kidnap and robbery of the cattle and residents of the Armenian villages. Hijack of cattle and its return for ransom was the usual practice of the villagers of Veysalu. The main occupation of the Ghajar residents was highway robbery, plunder and murder of the peasants. These predatory raids conducted in the atmosphere of total impunity of 1906 became intolerable.

"Nor Dar, 1896, N 142, p. 3 (in Arm.).
"Mshak", 1900, N 204, p. 2 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 224.

Armenian-Turkish Fights of 1905 to 1906
1906 y․

As witnessed by the contemporaneous mass media their Dooms day came on 11 February 1906: «Finally ... the robber’s den is destroyed. Today the Armenian people of Tizak and Varanda finally took revenge for the suffering caused to them during tens of years. Ghajar was demolished in the full sense of the word...»

"Mshak", 1906, N 14, Jan. 21, p. 1 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 224.

Description
1993 y․

Later the place was again occupied by the Turks. The village Ghajar was turned to a military standpoint wherefrom the Turks bombarded the Armenian villages of Karabakh. Its takeover by the Armenian Liberation Army fighters took place in April 1993.