Azat, Armenia
Azat
Ազատ | |
|---|---|
Azat Azat | |
| Coordinates: 40°10′40″N 45°52′18″E / 40.17778°N 45.87167°E | |
| Country | Armenia |
| Province | Gegharkunik |
| Municipality | Vardenis |
| Elevation | 2,054 m (6,739 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 101 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AMT) |
| Azat, Armenia at GEOnet Names Server | |
Azat (Armenian: Ազատ) is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.
History
'Azat' is the Armenian equivalent for 'free.'[2]
Located in the village is a heavily ruined Armenian 11th century church and a pair of medieval khachkars.[3]
The village was the birthplace of Azerbaijani ashik Ashig Alasgar (1821–1926).[4]
Demographics
In the late 19th century, the village comprised "... 15 families of native Armenians as well as 20 others that had resettled there from Khoy, 7 from Bozlukh, and 8 from Bakhshi..."[5]
In 1911, Azat, then known as Agkilisa (Russian: Агкилиса), had a predominantly Tatar (later known as Azerbaijanis)[6][7] population of 180 within the Nor Bayazet uezd of the Erivan Governorate of the Russian Empire.[8]
References
- ^ Statistical Committee of Armenia. "The results of the 2011 Population Census of Armenia" (PDF).
- ^ Lalayan, Yer. (1899). "Azgagrakan Handes". Armenian Azgagrakan. 5 (1). Tiflis: 317.
- ^ Kiesling, Brady; Kojian, Raffi (2005). Rediscovering Armenia: Guide (2nd ed.). Yerevan: Matit Graphic Design Studio. pp. 82–83. ISBN 99941-0-121-8.
- ^ "Ашуг Алескер". Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian).
- ^ Barkhutariants, Makar (1895). "Բաքու". Artsakh: 269.
- ^ Tsutsiev, Arthur. "18. 1886–1890: An Ethnolinguistic Map of the Caucasus". Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, pp. 48–50. ""Tatars" (or in rarer cases, "Azerbaijani Tatars") to denote Turkic-speaking Transcaucasian populations that would later be called "Azerbaijanis""
- ^ Yilmaz, Harun (2013). "The Soviet Union and the Construction of Azerbaijani National Identity in the 1930s". Iranian Studies. 46 (4): 513. doi:10.1080/00210862.2013.784521. ISSN 0021-0862. S2CID 144322861.
The official records of the Russian Empire and various published sources from the pre-1917 period also called them "Tatar" or "Caucasian Tatars," "Azerbaijani Tatars" and even "Persian Tatars" in order to differentiate them from the other "Tatars" of the empire and the Persian speakers of Iran.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1912 год (in Russian). Тифлис: Гл. упр. Кавказ. наместника. 1911. p. 120. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
External links
- Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia
- Kiesling, Brady (June 2000). Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 November 2021.