Bahlul () or Pahlul () is a village near the city of
Stepanakert
Stepanakert officially Khankendi is a city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. It was the capital city of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh prior to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in ...
in
Azerbaijan
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.
History
In June 1919, the village and the neighboring villages of
Ghaibalishen (Khaibalikend),
Jamilli
Jamilli (; ) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village had an Azerbaijani majority prior to their expulsion during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Prior to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive, it was '' de facto'' controlled by t ...
, and
Karkijahan were looted and destroyed in the
Khaibalikend massacre
The Khaibalikend massacre was the mass killing of Armenian civilians in the villages of Ghaibalishen (Khaibalikend), Jamilli, and Karkijahan and Pahlul in Nagorno-Karabakh, from June 5 to 7, 1919. The villages were destroyed, and from 600 to ...
with 600-700 ethnic
Armenians
Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiq ...
being killed by armed Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers.
[ Vratsian, Simon. ''Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն'' (''The Republic of Armenia''). Paris: H.H.D. Amerikayi Publishing, 1928, pp. 286-87.]
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