Hüsülü, Lachin
Husulu (), historically also Kashataghk () is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan, close to the villages of Ağoğlan and Qarıqışlaq. Armenian monuments such as the Melik Haykaz Palace and the Tsitsernavank Monastery are located near the village. History. Most Armenian historians identify the village with Kashataghk, a settlement mentioned by the 13th-century Armenian historian Stephen Orbelian (one Armenian historian, Armen Gharagyozian, instead identifies Kashataghk with the nearby village of Qarıqışlaq). Despite the village's small size and population, the whole region of Kashatagh was named after this settlement due to it being a princely residence of  the Armenian Meliks of Kashatagh. The Kurdish population that settled in the Kashatagh region after the deportation of the Armenian population from the region by Shah Abbas I referred to the village as Sultankand; according to historian Samvel Karapetyan, this is because the inhabitants knew about the location's past as a princely residence. The name has also been rendered as "Sultanlar" and "Sultanlı". Under the rule of the Russian Empire, the settlement was administered as part of the Zangezur Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate. According to administrative data from 1886, the settlement (recorded as two villages taken together, "First  Sultankand" and "Second Sultankand") had 151 inhabitants. In Soviet times, the village was a part of Red Kurdistan until its abolition in 1929. Thereafter, it was administered as part of the Lachin District. In 1931, the village received its current name, after the Azerbaijani communist official Hüsü Hajiyev. 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 self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Tsitsernavank  () or Melikashen (). It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement. Melik Haykaz Palace. A 15th-century palace of an Armenian melik, Melik Haykaz, who was the first ruler of the Agachech-Kashatagh melikdom, is located close to the village. The palace was built on a slope surrounded by a fortified wall with towers and gates. It had several floors, with Melik Haykaz's living room being located on the ground floor and his throne room being located on the second floor. It follows the classical architectural style of an Armenian Melik Palace. The palace  underwent renovation from 1989 to 1992. It was turned into a hotel in 2007. Azerbaijani sources refer to the structure as Hamza Sultan Palace, attributing it to an 18th-century local ruler named Hamza Sultan of the Qaraçorlu tribe.