ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Dzegam-Jerdakhan 1 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Shamkhor (District) / Dzegam-Jerdakhan (Village)

Location

The village lies 18 kilometres north-west of the district centre, at an altitude of 255 to 260 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 482.

Historical Introduction
1890 y․

In 1890 a visitor wrote the following about it, “...we made for Hin Zagam located at the foot of Gharaul Tapa. The village, whose inhabitants comprise Armenian and Turkish craftsmen, has some semi-ruined, dilapidated caravanserais as well as a number of houses and gardens boasting a glorious history. Now only several stands function here.”

The equivalent for ‘Hill of Guards’ in the Turkish language. Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 2.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 482.

19 c․

In the late 19th century, Dzegam-Jerdakhan belonged to six Turkish landowners.

National Archives of Armenia, fund 93, list 1, file 388, pp. 9-10.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 482.

Population
19 c․

V. Meves mentions the present-day village as the dwelling place of a cattle-breeding nomadic Turkish tribe in 1864.

Meves, V. Articles on Yelizavetpol District. In: “Kavkaz,” 1865, No. 85, p. 420. See p. 346 of the present work for more information about this village.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 482.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Yukhari Ayipli

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

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	474	1583	1298	2881		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 88-89; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 482.
1914				2180		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 213; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 482.
1979				4698		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 4, Baku, 1980, p. 314; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 482.