ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Bolchalu 1 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Khanlar (District) / Bolchalu (Village)

Location

The village is situated 5 kilometres west of Gandzak City, 12 kilometres north-west of the district centre, between 450 and 520 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 343.

Historical Introduction
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It was stripped of its Armenian population between the 17th and 18th centuries and later belonged to Turkish landowners Mahmed Agha Abul-Bey oghli, Soyun Agha Novruz Agha oghli and Vali Bey.

National Archives of Armenia, fund 93, list 1, file 388, pp. 37-38.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 343.

Monuments

Archaeological monuments. In 1899 E. Resler excavated 5 tombs in the neighbourhood of the hill of Pasha-Tapa rising on the bank of the river Artinajur. The archaeological finds trace them back to the period between the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Resler, E. Archaeological Research in Transcaucasia. In: “Kavkaz,” Tiflis, 1903, No. 179, p. 2.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 343.

The cattle-breeding Turkish tribe of Bolchalu lived scattered in several winter encampments in the valley of the Getishinaget and in the plains lying on the right bank of the Kur. The available statistical data regarding their number are as follows:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	149	656	500	1156		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 78-79; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 343.
1914				2650		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 101; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 343.
1977				2075		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 2, Baku, 1978, p. 241; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 343.