ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Plankend 1 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Shamkhor (District) / Plankend (Village)

Location

The settlement is situated 9 kilometres northeast of the district centre, at an altitude of 220 to 300 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

The present-day village, which originally represented several winter encampments lying within some distance of each other, used to shelter the cattle-breeding Turkish tribe of Kechili.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.

It was only in the late 19th century that it shifted to a sedentary life in the settlement of Kechili, belonging to landowners Hasan Bey and Rustam Bey Shamkhorski at that period.

National Archives of Armenia, fund 93, list 1, file 388, p. 13.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.

In the Soviet years, the two villages of the same name, situated within 3 kilometres of each other, were united and renamed Plankend (it was within the jurisdiction of the Village Council of Lyazgilyar).

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Kechili

The available statistical data regarding the number of the stock-breeding nomadic community of Kechili (later a village) represent the following picture:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1804	45	82	79	161		Collected Acts of the Caucasian Archaeological Commission, vol. 2, Tiflis, 1868, p. 596; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.
1886	222	569	382	951		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 82-83; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.
1914				1545		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 140; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.
1982				1698		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 7, Baku, 1983, p. 553; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 514.