Aşağı Fərəcan

Ashaghy Farajan Հարար  • Harar
Azerbaijani: Aşağı Fərəcan
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Coordinates: 39°31′43″N 46°39′40″E
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Lachin
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	44
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Aşağı Fərəcan (Ashaghy Farajan, Armenian: Հարար, romanized: Harar, also Arar and Jafarabad) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.

History

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]

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 breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province. It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.^[3]

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 15th/16th-century St. Stephen's Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Ստեփանոս եկեղեցի, romanized: Surb Stepanos Yekeghetsi).^[1][4]

Demographics

According to the Russian census in 1897, 523 people lived in the village, all Armenians.^[5] In 1921, 55 people lived in the village, all Armenians.^[6]

References

1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
2. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times (1997, Vol. 1), page 89
3. "Azerbaijani forces have returned to Karabakh city Lachin: Aliyev". Daily Sabah. 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
4. "St. Stepanos Church of Harar". monumentwatch.org.
5. 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
6. Данные переписи населения АзССР 1921 года по Дизакскому району

External links

• Aşağı Fərəcan at GEOnet Names Server