ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Kilisakyand 1804 y․ 20 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Gandzak (District) / Gandzak (District Centre) / Kilisakyand (Quarter)

Description

Kilisakyand. Like some other cities in Historical Armenia such as Kars, Shushi, Shamakhi, Yerevan, Akhaltskha, etc., Gandzak also had a Turkish population apart from its Armenian inhabitants. The city was divided between these two peoples, the Armenians mainly occupying the comparatively elevated areas, and the Turks the lowlands as usual. In Nor Gandzak, the elevated territories mainly extended on the left bank of the river where the city’s oldest Armenian quarter extended. It comprised an Armenian Apostolic church dedicated to St. Hovhannes Mkrtich (St. John the Baptist) and dating back to 1633; hence comes the name of the quarter, i.e. Kilisakyand (‘Church Village’ as translated from Turkish).

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 33.

1858 y․

In 1858 Russian traveller G. Tkachev described Gandzak and its quarters in the following way, “... The river Gandzak divides it in two parts, Kilisakend and Norashen, the former being mainly inhabited by the Armenians, and the latter by the Tartars...."

Tkachev, G. Travel Notes. In: “Kavkaz,” 1859, No. 9, p. 41, in Russian.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 32.

Population:

Dates	Houses	Notes	Source
1804	792		Collected Acts of the Caucasian Archaeological Commission, vol. 2, Tiflis, 1868, p. 596; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 35.
1861	750		National Archives of Armenia, fund 56, list 1, file 4254, p. 68; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 35.
1866	881		National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3848, p. 57; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 35.