Minbashyly () is a village in the

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 ...

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, located on Araz plain, 6 km south of the city of

Jabrayil Jabrayil (, ) is a ghost city in Azerbaijan, nominally the administrative capital of Azerbaijan's Jabrayil District. A town with Azerbaijani majority and Armenians, Armenian plurality at various times during the Russian Empire, Russian imperial ...

, on the right bank of Chaylag River (the left tributary of the Araz).

Toponym

The village bears the name of Minbashyly generation who lived in the village.

History

In the 19th century, the village consisted of several oimaks (camps) in the area of Kohnakishlak. Later the population settled in this area, known as Parayatag. Two generations lived in the village: the Minbashyly and the Jafaralilar. During the Soviet years, the village was part of the village council of the same name in Jabrayil district of

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. The village had a secondary school, a library, a community centre and a medical centre. 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 ...

. On 23 October 2020, the President

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announced that

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liberated the village of Minbashyly. On the same day, Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence published a video footage that allegedly showed the village of Minbashyly under the Azerbaijani control. The footages shows that all buildings in the village are destroyed during Armenian occupation.

Population

According to the publication “Administrative Division of the ASSR”, prepared in 1933 by the Department of National Economic Accounting of the Azerbaijan SSR (AzNEA), as of 1 January 1933, in Minbashyly village which was part of Dash Veysalli village council of Jabrayil district of Azerbaijan SSR, there were 45 farms and 237 inhabitants. The entire population of the village council were Azerbaijanis (in the source listed as “Turks”). In 1981, 235 people lived in the village. The village population was engaged in livestock farming, wheat cultivation, viticulture and sericulture.

References

{{Jabrayil Rayon Populated places in Jabrayil District