Azat, Armenia

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Azat
Ազատ
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Azat
Coordinates: 40°10′40″N45°52′18″E / 40.17778°N 45.87167°E / 40.17778; 45.87167
Country Armenia
Province Gegharkunik
Municipality Vardenis
Elevation
2,054 m (6,739 ft)
Population
 (2011) [1]
 • Total
101
Time zone UTC+4 (AMT)
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Azat (Armenian : Ազատ) is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. In 1988-1989 Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan settled in the village. [2]

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History

Located in the village is a heavily ruined Armenian 11th century church and a pair of medieval khachkars. [3]

The village was the birthplace of Azerbaijani ashik Ashig Alasgar (1821–1926). [4]

Demographics

In 1911, Azat, then known as Agkilisa (Russian : Агкилиса), had a predominantly Tatar (later known as Azerbaijanis) [5] [6] population of 180 within the Nor Bayazet uezd of the Erivan Governorate of the Russian Empire. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Statistical Committee of Armenia. "The results of the 2011 Population Census of Armenia" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "ԱԶԱՏ". gegharkunik.am. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  3. ↑ Kiesling, Brady; Kojian, Raffi (2005). Rediscovering Armenia: Guide (2nd ed.). Yerevan: Matit Graphic Design Studio. pp. 82–83. ISBN   99941-0-121-8.
  4. ↑ "Ашуг Алескер". Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian).
  5. ↑ Tsutsiev, Arthur. "18. 1886–1890: An Ethnolinguistic Map of the Caucasus". Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, pp. 48–50. ""Tatars" (or in rarer cases, "Azerbaijani Tatars") to denote Turkic-speaking Transcaucasian populations that would later be called "Azerbaijanis""
  6. ↑ Yilmaz, Harun (2013). "The Soviet Union and the Construction of Azerbaijani National Identity in the 1930s". Iranian Studies. 46 (4): 513. doi:10.1080/00210862.2013.784521. ISSN   0021-0862. S2CID   144322861. The official records of the Russian Empire and various published sources from the pre-1917 period also called them "Tatar" or "Caucasian Tatars," "Azerbaijani Tatars" and even "Persian Tatars" in order to differentiate them from the other "Tatars" of the empire and the Persian speakers of Iran.
  7. ↑ Кавказский календарь на 1912 год [Caucasian calendar for 1912] (in Russian) (67th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1912. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021.


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