Nrnadzor ( hy, Նռնաձոր) is a village in the
Meghri Municipality of the
Syunik Province in
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...
, on the bank of the
Aras River.
History
The village of Nrnadzor (meaning "pomegranate canyon" in Armenian, also the name of a nearby tributary of the Aras) was previously called Nyuvadi (; ).
During the
Russian Empire
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, the village was a part of the
Zangezur uezd
The Zangezur uezd was a county (''uezd'') of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire with its administrative center in Gerusy (present-day Goris) from 1868 until its formal abolition and partition between the Soviet republics of Armeni ...
of the
Elizavetpol Governorate
The Elizavetpol Governorate, also known after 1918 as the Ganja Governorate, was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yelisavetpol (present-day Ganja). The area of the governorate st ...
. The village was transferred from the
Azerbaijan SSR
Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist R ...
to the
Armenian SSR
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...
in 1928.
The Azerbaijani-speaking population of the village fled in the summer of 1991 in the context of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, after which the village was repopulated by Armenians who fled from different parts of Azerbaijan.
The exact date the Azerbaijani population departed was 8 August 1991 – the local administration ensuring their peaceful departure without violence.
On 4 July 2006, the village was renamed to its current name.
Demographics
The population is engaged with viticulture, fruit growing, animal husbandry and beekeeping.
At its height, the local school consisted of about 1,000 students.
describes that the population of the village was "Turkish" until 1988, "Muslim Tat" until 1991, and adds that the local population was not of Tat origin, mentioning that the population is described as "Tatar" (later known as
Azerbaijani
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* Something of, or related to Azerbaijan
* Azerbaijanis
* Azerbaijani language
See also
* Azerbaijan (disambiguation)
* Azeri (disambiguation)
* Azerbaijani cuisine
* Culture of Azerbaijan
The culture of Azerbaijan ...
) in Russian records since 1831.
Whilst
Tatul Hakobyan __NOTOC__
Tatul Ashiki Hakobyan ( hy, Թաթուլ Աշիկի Հակոբյան; born December 29, 1969) is an Armenian reporter and an independent political analyst.
Early life and education
Hakobyan was born in the village of Dovegh in northe ...
says that the Muslims who lived in Nrnadzor were actually
Tats who over time, like thousands of Tats in Soviet Azerbaijan, became Azeri. The Tats were counted and enumerated in various ways between 1831 and 1931: as Muslims, Tatars, Turko-Tatars, and a Turkish group. Russian records of 1894 describe the village's population of consisting of 1,094 Tats.
After the exodus of the local Azerbaijanis, Armenian families from
Gyumri
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
,
Kapan
Kapan ( hy, Կապան) is a town in southeast Armenia, serving as the administrative center of the urban community of Kapan as well as the provincial capital of Syunik Province. It is located in the valley of the Voghji River and is on the nort ...
,
Goris,
Armavir, and Getashen (
Çaykənd, Goygol
Çaykənd (; hy, Գետաշեն, Getashen) is a village and municipality in the Goygol District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,236. The village had an Armenian majority prior to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and Operation Ring. Howeve ...
) settled in the village. As of 2020, most of the population lives in former-Azerbaijani homes—the administrative head of the village, Aleksan Boyajyan, claims that the village consists of "42 households, 128 inhabitants", also mentioning that "Because of the past 15 years, many of the settlers left the village."
The population of Nrnadzor since 1831 is as follows:
References
Populated places in Syunik Province
Former Azerbaijani inhabited settlements
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