ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Nizami Monuments

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

Location

The village lies on the left bank of the river Kurak, 6 kilometres south-west of the township of Dalmamedli, 24 kilometres north-west of the district centre, between 320 and 350 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 323.

Foundation
19 c․

It was founded in the late 19th century by some stock-breeding Turkish tribes which had shifted to a sedentary life.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 323.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Molla-Avazli

Population:

Dates	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1908	327	Apparently, this number is exaggerated	Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 324; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 323.
1914	159	According to the highly exaggerated statistical data of 1886, the village had 42 houses with 256 inhabitants (Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 88-89).	Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 159; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 323.