Mərzili
History
Marzili was part of the Shusha Uyezd of Elisabethpol Governorate during the Russian Empire. According to 1886 census data, there were 273 homes and 1,079 Azerbaijanis (classified as "Tatars" in the census) of the Shiite branch of Islam in Mərzili. According to the 1912 "Caucasian Calendar", the village of Mərzili was home to 1,625 people, the majority of whom were Azerbaijanis (classified as "Tatars" in the census).
Mərzili was part of the village council of the same name in the Aghdam District of the Azerbaijan SSR during the early Soviet period in 1933. The village had 174 farms and a total population of 2,221 people. The population of the village council was 100 percent Azerbaijani.
The village had 3,400 residents in 1981. Its residents' main occupations were viticulture, agriculture, animal husbandry, and sericulture. There was a middle school, a vocational school, a cultural centre, two libraries, a sheep-breeding complex, a communication department, and a hospital in the village.
During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War on 11 June 1993, Armenian forces occupied the village, forcing the Azerbaijani population to flee. It was in this village that the Armenian-American commander Monte Melkonian was killed by Azeri forces. After 1994, it was later incorporated into the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Martuni Province, where it remained a ghost village. Mərzili was returned to Azerbaijan on 20 November 2020 as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.
Demographics
| Year | Population | Ethnic composition | Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886 | 1,079 | 100% Tatars (i.e. Azerbaijanis) | Transcaucasian Statistical Committee | ||||||||
| 1912 | 1,625 | Mainly Tatars | Caucasian Calendar | ||||||||
| 1933 | 2,221 | 100% Azerbaijanis | Statistics of Azerbaijan SSR | ||||||||
| 1981 | 3,400 | Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia | |||||||||
| 11 June 1993: Occupation of Marzili. Expulsion of Azerbaijani population | |||||||||||
Notable natives
- Khudu Mammadov – Scientist and screenwriter
References
- ^ "МӘРЗИЛИ". Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. Baku. 1982. p. 521.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказскаго края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г. Tiflis: Transcaucasian Statistical Committee. 1893. p. 276.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1912 год [Caucasian calendar for 1912] (in Russian) (67th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1912. p. 181. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021.
- ^ Административное деление АССР [Administrative divisions of the ASSR] (in Russian). AzUNKHU. 1933. p. 6.
- ^ Qasımqızı, Məleykə (14 October 2013). "Canlı və cansız təbiətin vurğunu olan Sirri-Xuda". 525-ci Qəzet (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 25 June 2022.
