Çaylı, Tartar

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Chayly / Aygestan
Çaylı / Այգեստան
Chayly / Aygestan is located in Azerbaijan
Chayly / Aygestan
Chayly / Aygestan
Coordinates: 40°20′11″N 46°49′22″E / 40.33639°N 46.82278°E / 40.33639; 46.82278Coordinates: 40°20′11″N 46°49′22″E / 40.33639°N 46.82278°E / 40.33639; 46.82278
Country Azerbaijan
 Republic of Artsakh (claimed)
DistrictTartar
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Çaylı (Chayly) or Aygestan (Armenian: Այգեստան) is a village in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan. The village is on the cease-fire line between the armed forces of the breakaway state Republic of Artsakh and those of Azerbaijan.

History[]

This village was founded in 1827 by Armenians who fled from the Iranian Khoy County north of Lake Urmia and resettled in the Russian Empire. During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. 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 Artsakh, 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 to 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 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]

People from Çaylı[]

  • Yuri Sahakyan — Armenian writer[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ О КАРАБАХСКОМ СЕЛЕ ЧАЙЛУ (in Russian)
  2. ^ Yulia Antonyan, "Reminiscences of the Future, The Social Life of Monuments in Refugee-Village" in "Caucasus Conflict Culture: Anthropological Perspectives on Times of Crisis", 2013, p199.
  3. ^ "Агдамский район 1979".
  4. ^ https://asbarez.com/198602/7-villages-in-martakert-to-be-surrendered-to-azerbaijan/
  5. ^ DeFacto Armenian News Agency
  6. ^ "Hadrut qəsəbəsi və 8 kənd işğaldan azad edildi — Video". 9 October 2020.

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