Xanlıq (; ) is a village in the

Qubadli District Qubadli District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the south-west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the Lachin, Khojavend, Jabrayil and Zangilan districts, and ...

of Azerbaijan. It is situated along the Hakari river.

History

Khanlyg was part of the

Jebrail Uyezd The Jebrail ''uezd'', also known after 1905 as the Karyagino uezd, was a county (''uezd'') of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire with its center in Jebrail (Jabrayil) from 1873 until its formal abolition in 1921 by the Soviet auth ...

of Elisabethpol Governorate during the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

. According to 1886 census data, there were 148 homes and 648

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(classified as "Tatars" in the census) of the

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branch of

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in Khanlyg. According to the 1912 "Caucasian Calendar", the village of Khanlyg was home to 797 people, the majority of whom were Azerbaijanis (classified as "Tatars" in the census). Khanlyg was part of the village council of the same name in the Zangilan 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 312 farms and a total population of 1,385 people. The population of the village council, which also included the villages of Alaqurşaq, Mahruzlu, and Muğanlı, was 97.7 percent Azerbaijani. The village had 2,201 residents in 1986. Its residents' main occupations were tobacco cultivation,

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, animal fiber, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising ...

, and

sericulture Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori, domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkwo ...

. There was a secondary school, a vocational school, a cultural centre, a library, and a hospital in the village. 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 ...

in 1993, Armenian forces occupied the village, forcing the Azerbaijani population to flee. 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

Kashatagh Province Kashatagh Province () was a Administrative divisions of the Republic of Artsakh, province of the Republic of Artsakh. It was the largest province by area (3,376.60 km2). The population as of 2013 was 9,656. Its capital was Lachin, Berdzor. ...

, where it was known as ''Ishkhanadzor'' (). The village was eventually settled by Syrian Armenians fleeing the Syrian Civil War. According to Artur Aghabekyan, Deputy Prime Minister of Artsakh, the village of Xanlıq was purposefully chosen for settlement because it is at the crossroads of roads leading north to

Lachin Lachin (, , ; ) is a town in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Lachin District. It was located within the strategic Lachin corridor, which used to link the Nagorno-Karabakh region with Armenia. The town was under control of Armen ...

, east to Hadrut, and west to

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. In 2006 the village completed the construction of Ishkhanadzor Clinic with financial backing from the Tufenkian Foundation, while in 2014, it was reported that 34 additional homes had been built in the village using funds from the Artsakh Lottery. The village has served as a hub for 16 other smaller settlements in the surrounding areas. Azerbaijan described the settlement of Syrian Armenians on its internationally recognised territory as a violation of international law. Azerbaijan recaptured the village on 26 October 2020, during the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories. It was a major escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, involvi ...

Demographics

Notable natives

* (1960–1992) — National Hero of Azerbaijan.

Gallery

File:Xanlıq (Qubadlı)DSC 0380.jpg, Ruins of Khanlyg File:Xanlıq (Qubadlı)DSC 0391.jpg File:Artcakh, Ishkhanadzor (Khanlyk), Bus stop, 2014.05.09 - panoramio.jpg, Soviet-era bus stop File:İlham Əliyev Qubadlı və Zəngilan rayonlarında olub 30.jpg File:Ruined village of Khanlig in Qubadli District, Azerbaijan 2.jpg, Barracks in the village File:Ruined village of Khanlig in Qubadli District, Azerbaijan 3.jpg, Entrance of the village File:Destroyed bridge in Khanlig, Azerbaijan 4.jpg, Destroyed bridge in Khanlyg

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Khanlyg Populated places in Qubadli District