ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Gyoranli Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Kasum-Ismayilov (District) / Gyoranli (Village)

Location

The village is situated on the right bank of the river Kurak, 11 kilometres north-west of the district centre, at an altitude of 148 to 152 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 320.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

In the late 19th century, Gyoranli belonged to Turkish landowners Melik Mahmed Bey and Mustafa Bey Shafibekov together with the villages of Shaf, Arapli, Nashmir, Iydali-Ghurugh and Mollah-Ismayili.

National Archives of Armenia, fund 93, list 1, file 388, pp. 15-16.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 320.

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

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	91	209	156	365	For reasons already specified, this number cannot be considered reliable	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. 320.
1906				45		Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 223; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 320.
1914				219		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 109; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 320.