Qazakh District

For the capital of Gazakh Rayon, see Gazakh (city).
Qazakh
Rayon

Map of Azerbaijan showing Qazakh Rayon
Coordinates: 41°05′36″N 45°21′58″E / 41.09333°N 45.36611°E / 41.09333; 45.36611Coordinates: 41°05′36″N 45°21′58″E / 41.09333°N 45.36611°E / 41.09333; 45.36611
Country  Azerbaijan
Villages 34
Capital Qazax
Government
 • Executive power Rajab Babashov
Area
 • Total 701 km2 (271 sq mi)
Population [1]
 • Total 102,031
 • Density 150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone AZT (UTC+4)
Postal code 3500
Telephone code (+994) 2229[2]
Website www.qazax-ih.gov.az

Gazakh (Azerbaijani: Qazax; also known as Kazakh or Qazakh) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. It has two exclaves inside Armenia, Yukhari Askipara and Barkhudarli, both of which came under Armenian control during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

History

In antiquity, this rayon was part of the province of Utik. The region was conquered by a succession of neighbouring powers or invaders, including Sassanid Persians, the Byzantine Empire, the Arabs, the Seljuq Turks, the Georgians, the Mongols, the Timurids, the Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koyunlu Turkoman tribes, and finally Safavid Iran. It was also ruled by Ottoman Empire between 1578 and 1607 and again 1722 and 1735.

After the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813), the Russian Empire gained control of the area by virtue of the Treaty of Gulistan. Under Russian rule, it was part of Tiflis Governorate before forming the northeastern part of the Kazakh uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate in 1868. A contemporary military historian noted the following ethnographic detail: "Abbas Mirza's route lay through the country of the great tribe of the Casaks, which is extremely strong and thickly wooded." He further notes that: "These have no connection with the Russian Cossacks. They are descended from men of the Kirgis Casaks, left by Genghis Khan. They are frequently called Kara Papaks, from wearing black sheep-skin caps."[3]

When the South Caucasus came under British occupation, Sir John Oliver Wardrop, British Chief Commissioner in the South Caucasus, decided that assigning the Erivan Governorate and the Kars Oblast to Democratic Republic of Armenia (DRA) and the Elisabethpol and Baku Governorates to the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) would solve the region's outstanding disputes. However, this proposal was rejected by both Armenians (who did not wish to give up their claims to Kazakh, Zangezur (today Syunik), and Nagorno-Karabakh) and Azerbaijanis (who found it unacceptable to give up their claims to Nakhichevan). As conflict broke out between the two groups, the British left the region in mid-1919.

List of Historic and Tourist Sites

There are 112 protected monuments in the region of Qazakh, of which 54 are archaeological, 46 are architectural, 7 are historical, and 5 are of artistic significance. Historic and tourist sites in this region include:

Prominent people from Qazakh


Name of Villages Name of Villages Name of Villages
1-I Shikhli 16-Khanliqlar 31-Ashaghi Askipara
2-II Shikhli 17-Jafarli 32-Yukhari Askipara
3-Yukhari Salahli 18-Bala Jafarli 33-Aghkoynak
4-Aslanbayli 19-Barxudarli 34-Garapapaq
6-Kamarli 21-Damirchilar
7-Ashaghi Salahli 22-Alpout
8-Orta Salahli 23-Urkmazli
9-Gazaxbayli 24-Abbasbayli
10-Kosalar 25-Gyzyl Hacili
11-Janalli 26-Farahli
12-Huseynbayli 27-Mazam
13-Dash Salahli 28-Gushchu Ayrim
14-Chayli 29-Baghanis Ayrim
15-Kommuna 30-Kheyrimli

Demographics

Azeris 99.8% (84.399)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The state statistical committee of the Azerbaijan Republic Archived November 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "Şəhərlərarası telefon kodları". Aztelekom MMC. Aztelekom İB. Retrieved 19 August 2015. (Azerbaijani)
  3. ↑ Lt-Gen. William Monteith, Kars and Erzeroum: With the Campaigns of Prince Paskiewitch, in 1828 and 1829; and an Account of the conquests of Russia beyond the Caucasus, from the time of Peter the Great to the Treaty of Turcoman Chie and Adrianople, London: Longman, 1856, p. 60
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