Çaylı, Tartar

This village was founded in 1827 by Armenians who fled Iranian region of Khoy County North from Lake Urmia and resettled in Russian Empire. During the Nagorno-Karabakh war, the village's Armenian population fled after Azerbaijani troops stormed the settlement on 16 June 1992.[1] In 2001, refugees from the village founded a new settlement they named Nor-Aygestan ("new-Aygestan"), in the Martakert Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, with 90-95% of its population originating from Aygestan/Çaylı.[2] The village was part of a set of villages of displaced Armenians who relocated themselves in the Agdam district, which was largely captured by Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. This district, including the area of Nor-Aygestan, was previously inhabited by Azerbaijanis. In 1979, there only used to be 284 non-Azerbaijanis in the countryside of the whole district (0.4% of the population).[3] The village of Nor-Agyestan was therefore surrendered to Azerbaijan on the basis of the terms of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[4]

During the ceasefire of the Bishkek Protocol of 1994 until 2020, there have been multiple allegations of ceasefire violations in the village's vicinity.[5] The village was also part of the 2010 Mardakert clashes. The Armenian forces nevertheless managed to hold or regain control over the nearby frontline, until the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war when Azerbaijanis proclaimed capturing the entirety of the village, whereas they mainly advanced in the south of Nagorno-Karabakh.[6]

• Yuri Sahakyan — Armenian writer

• Çaylı, Tartar at GEOnet Names Server