Jraberd, Martakert
Jraberd / Chileburt Ջրաբերդ / Çiləbürt | |
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 Jraberd Fortress, located in the mountains to the west of the village | |
  Jraberd / Chileburt  Jraberd / Chileburt | |
| Coordinates: 40°15′03″N 46°50′36″E / 40.25083°N 46.84333°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| • District | Tartar |
| Population (2015)[1] | |
| • Total | 88 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Jraberd (Armenian: Ջրաբերդ) or Chileburt (Azerbaijani: Çiləbürt, also Çiləbörd, Chilabord) is a village located in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population[2] until the exodus of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.[3]
History
[edit]During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
The village was administered by the Republic of Artsakh after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. The village was on the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact and there were allegations of ceasefire violations in the village's vicinity.[4]
Jraberd Fortress
[edit]Hasan Jalalyan, the founder of the princely family that ruled the Principality of Khachen lived at the fortress of Jraberd, located in the mountains to the west of Maghavuz, southwest of Tonashen, close to the Yerits Mankants Monastery.[5]
Economy and culture
[edit]The village is part of the community of Martakert.[1]
Demographics
[edit]The village had 63 inhabitants in 2005,[6] and 88 inhabitants in 2015.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
- ^ Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
- ^ Sauer, Pjotr (2 October 2023). "'It's a ghost town': UN arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh to find ethnic Armenians have fled". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ "Де Факто - Передовые подразделения Армии обороны вовремя зафиксировали продвижение азербайджанских отрядов" [Front-line units of the [Artsakh] Defence Army duly discovered the movement of Azerbaijani units]. DeFacto.am (in Russian). 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ Hewsen, Robert H. "The Kingdom of Arc'ax" in Medieval Armenian Culture (University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies). Thomas J. Samuelian and Michael E. Stone (eds.) Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1984, pp. 42–68, ISBN 0-89130-642-0
- ^ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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