Ghaibalishen / Qaybali
Ղայբալիշեն / Qaybalı
Ghaibalishen / Qaybali is located in Azerbaijan
Ghaibalishen / Qaybali
Ghaibalishen / Qaybali
Coordinates: 39°46′35″N 46°43′40″E / 39.77639°N 46.72778°E / 39.77639; 46.72778
Country (') Azerbaijan
 • DistrictShusha
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Ghaibalishen (Armenian: Ղայբալիշեն) or Qaybali (Azerbaijani: Qaybalı; Armenian: Ղայբալու, romanized: Ghaybalu) is a village that is part of the Shusha District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until 2024, the village was controlled by the Republic of Artsakh.

Toponymy

The village is also known as Khaibalikend (Russian: Кайбаликенд).

History

According to the 1897 census, 381 Armenians and 133 Azerbaijanis lived in the village.[1]

In June 1919, 600-700 Armenian inhabitants of Ghaibalishen and the neighboring villages of Jamilli, Karkijahan and Pahlul were massacred by armed Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers. Ghaibalishen was looted and burnt.[2]: 176–177 [3]

The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 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, page. 30
  2. ↑ Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918–1919. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520019843.
  3. ↑ (in Armenian) Vratsian, Simon. Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն (The Republic of Armenia). Paris: H.H.D. Amerikayi Publishing, 1928, pp. 286-87.
  4. ↑ "Карта 33. Зона конфликта в Нагорном Карабахе (1988–1994...)". iriston.com.
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