Qamışlı () is a village in the

Kalbajar District Kalbajar District () is one of the 66 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan, districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Lachin Distric ...

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

. It is situated along the

Levçay The Levçay is one of the tributaries of Tartarchay River in western Azerbaijan. Overview The Levçay is a long river flowing from the mountains in central Kalbajar District into the Tartarchay as its left tributary. The latter proceeds west thr ...

river.

History

Qamışlı was part of the Jevanshir Uyezd of

Elisabethpol 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 s ...

during the

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. According to 1886 census data, there were 22 homes and 183

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of the

Shiite Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood ...

branch of

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in Qamışlı. According to the 1912 publication of the ''Caucasian Calendar'', the village of Qamışlı was home to 121 people, the majority of whom were

Azerbaijanis Azerbaijanis (; , ), Azeris (, ), or Azerbaijani Turks (, ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group living mainly in the Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan region of northwestern Iran and the Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan. They are predomin ...

(classified as "Tatars" in the census). Qamışlı was part of the village council of the same name in the Kalbajar District of the

Azerbaijan SSR The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, also referred to as the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijani SSR, AzSSR, Soviet Azerbaijan or simply Azerbaijan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union be ...

during the early Soviet period in 1933. The village had 58 farms and a total population of 320 people. The population of the village council, which also included the villages of Ağdaban, Bağırsaq, Bağırlı, Yanşaq,

Susuzluq Susuzluq () is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern E ...

, and Zallar, was 100 percent Azerbaijani. During the

First Nagorno-Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic conflict, ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nag ...

, Qamışlı changed hands several times. The Armenian forces launched an offensive in 1993, capturing the entire Kalbajar district. A year later, during the

Operation Kalbajar Operation Kalbajar was a Offensive (military), military offensive launched by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in late 1993 against the forces of the Armenian Army and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to recapture ...

, Azerbaijani forces recaptured Qamışlı, but the Armenians soon launched a counter-offensive, forcing the Azerbaijanis to abandon the village. It was later incorporated into the breakaway

Republic of Artsakh Artsakh ( ), officially the Republic of Artsakh or the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ( ), was a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory was internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Between 1991 and 2023, Artsakh cont ...

as part of its

Shahumyan Province Shahumyan Province (, also spelled ''Shaumyan'' and ''Shahumian'') was a Administrative divisions of the Republic of Artsakh, province of the political status of Nagorno-Karabakh, breakaway Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' part of the Republic ...

, where it was known as ''Yeghegnut'' (). Qamışlı was returned to Azerbaijan on 25 November 2020 as part of the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement was an armistice agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It was signed on 9November by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the Pr ...

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the medieval bridge of ''Shahi'' (, ), a

khachkar A ''khachkar'' (also spelled as ''khatchkar'') or Armenian cross-stone (, , խաչ ''xačʿ'' "cross" + քար ''kʿar'' "stone") is a carved, memorial stele bearing a cross, and often with additional motifs such as rosette (design), rosettes ...

and a

stele A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...

from between the 12th and 13th centuries, as well as a 13th/14th-century chapel.

Demographics

Gallery

Егегнут.jpg Medieval church in Artsakh.jpg, 13th/14th-century chapel Егегнут2.jpg Дорога в Ехегнут.jpg Եկեղեցի Եղեգնուտում5.jpg, 13th/14th-century chapel Qamışlı village, Kalbajar District, Azerbaijan 1.jpg

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Qamisli Populated places in Kalbajar District