ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Bozalghanli Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Touz (District) / Bozalghanli (Village)

Location

The village, adjoining the district centre of Touz in the east, is located at an altitude of 410 to 420 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 529.

Historical Introduction
1860 y․

The stock-breeding tribe of Bozalghanli lived a nomadic life in the 1860s, which made it rather difficult to carry out a trustworthy population census among them and compile the lists of tax payers. With this regard, a contemporary writes the following, “Well, let us suppose that Bozalghanli Village, having 152 houses, should be taxed. It extends up to our district and Shirak, its houses being located within long versts of each other. It is utterly difficult to establish the occupation of the local inhabitants: they are said to be stock-breeders, which obliges them to change their places of living constantly, so that the tax collectors find it almost impossible to trace them in due time…”

Meves, V. Articles on Yelizavetpol District. In: “Kavkaz,” 1865, No. 85, p. 440 (the original reads, “Положим, что из деревни Бозаганлы, имеющей 152 дыма, следует собрать подать. Эта деревня раскинута и в нашем уезде и в Ширакском приставстве, а дым от дыма отстоит на десятки верст; сказать наверно, чем занимаются жители этой деревни очень трудно; почти все они, как говорят, скотоводы, а как скотоводы не живут на месте долго ни летом, ни зимою, то во время взноса податей их очень трудно отыскать сборщику”).
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 529.

19 c․

In the late 19th century, Bozalghanli belonged to landowner Yusup Bey Khanbudaghov.

National Archives of Armenia, fund 93, list 1, file 388, pp. 30-31.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 529.

The available statistical data on the number of the local population represent the following picture:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	264	1071	544	1615		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 144-145; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 530.
1914				2396		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 100; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 530.
1976				6050		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 2, Baku, 1978, p. 218; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 530.