ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Ashaghi Seyfali 1 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Shamkhor (District) / Ashaghi Seyfali (Village)

Location

The village is situated 12 kilometres southeast of the district centre, at an altitude of 440 to 490 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.

Population

Its historical name has sunk into oblivion like those of the other adjacent villages. It was presumably stripped of its Armenian population by the late 17th century.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.

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For a long time, the village site served as a winter encampment for some nomadic Turkish tribes. It was only in the late 19th century that these cattle-breeders shifted to a sedentary mode of life and founded the present-day Turkish settlement of Ashaghi Seyfali.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Nerkin Seyfali

Below follow the available statistical data regarding the local population:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	250	1005	648	1653	For reasons already specified, the number of the village population is exaggerated.	Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 86-87; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.
1914				1550		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 180; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.
1976				1915		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Baku, 1976, p. 509; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.