Jamilli

Jamilli (Armenian: Ջամիլլի; Azerbaijani: Cəmilli) is a village de facto in the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an Azerbaijani majority prior to their expulsion during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[1]

Jamilli
Ջամիլլի
Cəmilli
Jamilli is located in Republic of Artsakh
Jamilli
Jamilli
Jamilli is located in Azerbaijan
Jamilli
Jamilli
Coordinates: 39°50′22″N 46°43′18″E
Country (de facto) Artsakh
 • ProvinceAskeran
Country (de jure) Azerbaijan
 • DistrictKhojaly
Elevation
843 m (2,766 ft)
Time zoneUTC+4 (AMT)

History

In June 1919, Jamilli and the neighboring villages of Ghaibalishen (Khaibalikend), Karkijahan and Pahlul were looted and burnt as part of the Khaibalikend massacre by armed Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers, in which a total of 600-700 Armenians were killed.[2][3]

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

Demographics

According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 125 people, with the entire population being Armenian.[4] Until the 1960s, the village was populated by Armenians, however, in 1963-1964, under the pretext of building a water pipeline to Stepanakert near the village, the population of the village were moved to the city of Stepanakert where they were provided land. After that, the village was populated by Azerbaijanis. In 1989, Jamilli had a population of 549 people.[5]

The Russian human rights organisation Memorial reported on the forced exodus of the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village, along with several other Azerbaijani villages in the area, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[6]

Notable people
  • Shakir Salakhov — National Hero of Azerbaijan[7]

References
  1. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  2. Hovannisian, Richard. The Republic of Armenia: Vol. I, The First Year, 1918-1919. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971, pp. 176-177, notes 51-52.
  3. (in Armenian) Vratsian, Simon. Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն (The Republic of Armenia). Paris: H.H.D. Amerikayi Publishing, 1928, pp. 286-87.
  4. "Данные переписи населения АзССР 1921 года". www.karabagh.am. Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  5. "Глава 2. Шагреневая кожа Закавказья". sumgait.info. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  6. "СОБЫТИЯ, ПРЕДШЕСТВУЮЩИЕ ШТУРМУ ХОДЖАЛЫ". memo.ru (in Russian). Memorial. Archived from the original on 2010-07-31.
  7. "Salahov Shakir Shamil oglu". milliqahraman.az.
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