Charektar

Charektar (Armenian: Չարեքտար; Azerbaijani: Çərəkdar) is a village de facto in the Shahumyan Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to their explusion during the First Nagorno-Karabakh war.[2]

Charektar
Çərəkdar
Չարեքտար
Charektar
Charektar
Coordinates: 40°08′44″N 46°20′40″E
Country Azerbaijan (de jure)
 Artsakh (de facto)
DistrictKalbajar (de jure)
ProvinceShahumyan (de facto)
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total262
Time zoneUTC+4 (AMT)

Etymology

The name Charektar is of Persian origin.[3]

History

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, and was incorporated into the Shahumyan Province of the Republic of Artsakh after its capture during the First Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Economy and culture

The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a secondary school, and a medical centre.[1]

Demographics

In 1912, 199 people lived in the village, mostly Azerbaijanis.[4] It had 202 inhabitants in 1993, with all of them being Azerbaijanis.[5] It kept its Azerbaijani majority until the village's capture by Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh war, when all of its inhabitants were forced to flee.

Charektar was subsequently settled by Armenians, had 159 inhabitants in 2005,[6] and 262 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

  • Mesropavank Monastery near the village

References
  1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. Arsène Saparov (2017-09-01). "Contested spaces: the use of place-names and symbolic landscape in the politics of identity and legitimacy in Azerbaijan". Central Asian Survey. 36 (4): 534–554. doi:10.1080/02634937.2017.1350139.
  4. Caucasian Calendar 1912. p.223
  5. Административное деление АССР. — Баку: Издание АзУНХУ, 1933.
  6. Population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2005)
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