ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Nor Azat 8 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Khanlar (District) / Nor Azat (Village)

Foundation
1910 y․

On permission of the provincial authorities, in 1910 the inhabitants of Azat founded a new village of the same name at the foot of the same mountain branch, a little northeast of their former place of living.

“Tifliski Listok,” 1912, No. 119, p. 3.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 338.

Description
1926 y․

By 1926 it had grown into a prospering village: “It is only 16 years since older Suluk was abandoned due to its unfavourable position and a new Suluk was founded in a plain. It is the first Armenian village to have well-measured, regular houses and streets that are between 7 and 8 sazhens wide. They are planted with trees such as apples, pears, nuts, lindens, etc. and have channels flowing along them. Every house has its own garden with fruit trees, and its kitchen garden where Jerusalem artichoke, beans, cabbage, radish and other vegetables are grown. All this represents a huge but modest garden that attracts and fascinates you. The dwellings are mostly tiled and double-storied...”

“Martakoch,” No. 180, 10 August 1926.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 338.

Population

The inhabitants of Nor Azat were forced into leaving their native village between 27 and 28 February 1990. The last remaining Armenian family was Benik Melkumian’s, which abandoned the village, then already under Azeri control, on 3 March and resettled in Getashen.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 338.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Nor Suluk