Charali () is a village situated in the eponymous administrative-territorial county of
Gubadly 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 Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...
.
History
According to the "Collection of statistical data on the population of the Transcaucasian region extracted from the family lists of 1886", in the village of Charali, part of Safulin rural district of
Zangezur district,
Elizavetpol province, there were 29 households, and 181
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 ...
Sunni Muslim faith (referred to as "Tatars" in the source), all of whom were state peasants.
During the
First Karabakh War, in 1993, the village was occupied by the Armenian armed forces.
After the occupation, residential buildings, a village school, village library were destroyed.
The village was liberated from occupation by the
Azerbaijani Armed Forces
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces () is the military of the Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan. It was re-established according to the country's Law of the Armed Forces on 9 October 1991. The original Azerbaijan Democratic Republic's armed forces were ...
on November 9 during the Second Karabakh War.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cereli
Populated places in Qubadli District