Kalbajar Rayon

Kalbajar () is a rayon o Azerbaijan. Kalbajar is a Kurdish name meaning Stane City. The entire region is currently unner the control o Armenie forces that caw the wastren hauf Karvajar. The eastren hauf is offeecially pairt o Nagorno-Karabakh, makin up pairt o the Martakert Province. The Azeri an Kurdish population o Kalbajar wur displaced bi the fechtin an currently live as internally displaced bodies in ither regions o Azerbaijan.

Demographics
1989 405
Azerbaijanis 83.19% (55.082)
Armenians 14.79% (9.794)
Kurds  1.88% (1.248)
Ither 1%

History
The Armenie name o the destrict is Karvachar (), that corresponds tae the auncient destrict o Vaykunik, ane o 12 cantons o Artsakh (historical Nagorno-Karabakh) Robert H. Hewsen, Armenia: A Historical Atlas. The University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 40, 101-102, 264-265.. It wis kent as Upper-Khachen or Tsar (efter its chief toun) an aa, an wis ruled bi ane o the branches o the Hoose o Khachen, that haudit it til the Roushie conquest o the Karabakh region in the early 19t century.

In the early 17t century maist o the oreeginal Armenian population o Kalbajar wis deportit bi Abbas I an eventually Kurds sattlit the area as they did in the neeburin Qashatagh .

In the time o Kurdistan Uyezd, the Kalbajar region wis a predominantly Kurdish inhabitit area.Thomas Glotz, Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic, 496 pp., M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1998, ISBN 0765602431, p.322. Efter deportation o the Kurds unner Joseph Stalin, Azeris constitutit the main pairt o the population.

As a result o the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the area wis taken bi Armenie forces in 1992. Subsequently the Azeri population fled the region.

 Cultural monuments 
Karvachar is rich in Armenian monuments numberin close tae 750, whilk include monasteries, kirks, chapels, fortresses, khachkars an inscriptions. The maist important o them is the monastery o Dadivank.

Unner Armenie Control
The destrict wis made intae the province o Shahumyan, ane o the 8 provinces o NKR. The province remains the least populatit o the NKR provinces wi a tot population o 2,800. The toun o Karvachar is hame tae 500 fowk.Armeniapedia, Karvachar

 Relatit pages 
Battle o Kelbajar

References  

Freemit airtins
 Interactive map o Azerbaijan

Category:Destricts o Azerbaijan
Category:Azerbaijani admeenistrative diveesions o Nagorno-Karabakh