Jraberd
Ջրաբերդ
Çiləbürt
Jraberd Fortress, located in the mountains to the west of the village
Jraberd Fortress, located in the mountains to the west of the village
Jraberd is located in Azerbaijan
Jraberd
Jraberd
Coordinates: 40°15′03″N 46°50′36″E / 40.25083°N 46.84333°E / 40.25083; 46.84333
Country Azerbaijan
 • DistrictTartar
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total88
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Jraberd (Armenian: Ջրաբերդ) or Chilabord (Azerbaijani: Çiləbörd or Çiləbürt) is a village located in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]

History

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]

Jraberd Fortress

Hasan Jalalyan, the founder of the princely family that ruled the Principality of Khachen lived at the fortress of Jraberd, located in the mountains to the west of Maghavuz, southwest of Tonashen, close to the Yerits Mankants Monastery.[4]

Economy and culture

The village is part of the community of Martakert.[1]

Demographics

The village had 63 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 88 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. ↑ Hewsen, Robert H. "The Kingdom of Arc'ax" in Medieval Armenian Culture (University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies). Thomas J. Samuelian and Michael E. Stone (eds.) Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1984, pp. 42–68, ISBN 0-89130-642-0
  5. ↑ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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