Aşağı Fərəcan
Aşağı Fərəcan (Armenian: Հարար, romanized: Harar, also Arar and Dzhafarabad) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.
Aşağı Fərəcan
Հարար • Harar | |
|---|---|
  Aşağı Fərəcan | |
| Coordinates: 39°31′43″N 46°39′40″E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| District | Lachin |
| Population (2019) | |
| • Total | 33 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
History
According to the Russian census in 1897, 523 people lived in the village, all Armenians.[1]
The village suffered during the Armenian–Azerbaijani War in 1918-1920. According to Armenian historian Richard G. Hovannisian, at the end of November 1918, local Azerbaijanis destroyed Harar and two other Armenian villages, Spitakashen and Petrosashen, the three remaining Armenian villages between Nagorno-Karabakh and Zangezur, thus dividing the two mountainous regions.[2]
In 1921, 55 people lived in the village, all Armenians.[3]
The village was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s. The village subsequently became part of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province.
It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.
References
- Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской империи 1897 г. «Населенные места Российской империи в 500 и более жителей с указанием всего наличного в них населения и числа жителей преобладающих вероисповеданий, по данным первой всеобщей переписи населения 1897 г.», Санкт-Петербург, 1905, стр. 29
- The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times (1997, Vol. 1), page 89
- Данные переписи населения АзССР 1921 года по Дизакскому району
