Jraberd

Jraberd (Armenian: Ջրաբերդ) or Chilabord (Azerbaijani: Çiləbörd or Çiləbürt) is a village de facto in the Martakert Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan. The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]

Jraberd
Ջրաբերդ
Çiləbürt
Jraberd Fortress
Jraberd
Jraberd
Coordinates: 40°15′03″N 46°50′36″E
Country Azerbaijan (de jure)
 Artsakh (de facto)
DistrictTartar (de jure)
ProvinceMartakert (de facto)
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total88
Time zoneUTC+4 (AMT)

History

It has been reported that Hasan Jalalyan, the founder of the princely family who ruled over the Principality of Khachen lived here at the ancient castle of Jraberd, and functioned as the center of his line.

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

The village has been administered by the Republic of Artsakh since the First Nagorno-Karabakh war. The village is on the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact. There have been allegations of ceasefire violations in the village's vicinity.[3]

Demographics

The village had 63 inhabitants in 2005,[4] and 88 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

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. "Де Факто - Передовые подразделения Армии обороны вовремя зафиксировали продвижение азербайджанских отрядов" [Front-line units of the [Artsakh] Defence Army duly discovered the movement of Azerbaijani units]. DeFacto.am (in Russian). 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  4. "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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