ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Hajali Monuments

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

Location

The village is situated in a plain 16 kilometres north-east of Gandzak City, within 28 kilometres of the district centre in the same direction, between 190 and 200 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 387.

Population
1864 y․

As late as 1864, the local Turks still led a nomadic life. With this respect, a traveller reports some interesting details concerning his trip to the “village” of Hajali: “...will it take us long to reach the Tartar village?” They answered my question in surprise, “It’s a long time since we entered Hajali Village.” Can you imagine how very amazed I was to be assured by my guides that I was in a Tartar village, while what I saw was a bare steppe... “Well, but what about the Tartars’ dwellings, their household buildings, fields, workshops...?” ...pointing to some diggings we were passing by, they said, “Here are the dwellings we spend winters in. In summers we live in pens; that’s why, we don’t see any houses or other buildings now...”

Meves, V. Articles on Yelizavetpol District. In: “Kavkaz,” 1865, No. 42, p. 231 (the original reads, ”...скоро ли мы доедем до татарской деревни. Они, изумляясь моему вопросу, отвечали. “Да мы уже давно в деревне Гаджали”. Можно себе представить, каково было мое удивление, когда мои вожатые среди голой степи уверяли меня, что я в татарской деревне!... -Где же дома, в которых живут татары? Где же их хозяйственныя обзаведения? Где же те сады, фабрики, сенокосы ... они указали на яму, к которой мы подъезжали -говоря. вот наши зимние дома, а летом мы живем на кочевках, и оттого-то теперь нельзя видеть ни домов, ни хозяйственных наших заведений, ни сенокосов”
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 388.

Historical Introduction

In the Soviet years, the village was under the jurisdiction of the Village Council of Lyak.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 388.

Several statistical sources provide the following data relating to the population of Hajali:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	45	161	132	293		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 84-85; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 388.
1907				338		Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 216; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 388.
1914				240		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 106; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 388.