ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Aghdam 2 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Aghdam (District) / Aghdam (District Centre)

Historical Introduction

The area of the present-day Aghdam was desolate till the second half of the 17th century. It was used as a hunting resort, when Panah Khan (1747-60) after taking hold of Shushi ordered to build the first stone house for the hunters. Later both Panah and his successors used Aghdam as a winter resort.

"The Caucasus", 1883, N 212, p. 2 (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 209.

The first to settle in Agdam were the Azerbaijanian Turkish tribes that came here by the incentive of the same Panah. Later - in the second half of the XVIII century the population of Aghdam was fulfilled by other Turkish tribes, that arrived from various districts of Persia and established a settlement.

"The Caucasus", 1883, N 212, p. 2 (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 210.

Description
1805 y․

By 1805 “it was a large village” already. Since 1868 a fair opened each Sunday in Aghdam. In 1868-70 they built a mosque.

V. Potto, The First Volunteers of Karabakh, Yerevan, 1976, p. 14 (in Arm.).
Sh. S. Fatullayev, Urban Development and Architecture of Azerbaijan in the XlX-early XX cent, Leningrad, 1986, p. 264-265 (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 210.

Population
1886 y․

In 1886 Aghdam had already 99 households with 458 residents, while in 1914 the village had 260 residents only.

"Update of the Statistical Data of the Household Lists of the Caucasus Settlements. Yelisavetpol Province", Tiflis, 1888, p. 13 (in Russian).
"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, p. 83 (in Russian).
See also S. Karapetian, The Azerbaijanian Cities Surrounding the NKR 80 Years Ago, "Azatamart", 1994, N 46, p. 14 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 210.

Historical Introduction
1930 y․

During the Soviet period (since 1930) when Aghdam became the administrative centre, it was turned to a town-type settlement.