Çələbilər (also, Chalabilar) the ruins of a village located 17 km west of the city of Jabrayil, within the
Dagh Tumas administrative-territorial unit, Jabrayil district, Azerbaijan.
Toponym
According to the "Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Toponyms of Azerbaijan", the name of the village is linked with the generations of families that founded it, known as chalabi (head of the Mevlevi Sufi order).
History
During the Russian Empire years, the village of Chalabilar was part of
Jabrayil district
Jabrayil 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 districts of Khojavend, Fuzuli, Qubadli, Zangilan, and t ...
,
Elizavetpol province. According to the “Code of statistical data of the Transcaucasian region population, extracted from the family lists of 1886”, in the village of Chalabilar, Tumasli rural district, Jabrayil district, there were 7 dym where lived 59 Azerbaijanis (listed as “Tatars”), who were Sunni by religion, 31 of them were representatives of the clergy, the rest were peasants.
During the Soviet years, the village was part of
Jabrayil district
Jabrayil 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 districts of Khojavend, Fuzuli, Qubadli, Zangilan, and t ...
,
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 ...
. The village of Chalabilar was registered as part of
Dagh Tumas village council of the district in 1933.
The entire population of the village council at that time was formed by Azerbaijanis (in the source - “Turks”). At this time, there were 19 farms in the village and 121 residents.
The village was captured by Armenian forces in the
First Karabakh War
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an 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 Nagorno-Karabakh bac ...
and was destroyed.
On 6 October 2020, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared that Chalabilar village was liberated and came under the control of the Azerbaijani Armed forces.
See also
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Chalabilar Mosque
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chalabilar, Jabrayil
Populated places in Jabrayil District