16 YEARS PASS SINCE NKR DEFENSE ARMY LIBERATED HISTORICAL DIZAK

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.08.2009 14:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 16 years passed since the liberation of Dizak region
of historical Artsakh by the NKR Defense Army . On August 23 the NKR
Defense Army to suppress the enemy’s firing points and ensuring the
security of southern regions’ dwellers, managed to halt the advancing
Azerbaijani army and took control over Fizuli and Jabrail region.

Historically and geographically, the area of Nagorno-Karabakh is 14
thousand square kilometers and includes not only the territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh, Lachin and Kelbajar regions, but also significant
areas of Khanlar, Dashkesan, Shamkhor, Kedabek and of Barda, Agdam,
Fizuli, Jebrail, Zangelan and Kubatly of the former Azerbaijani SSR.

Jebrail is a part of Dizak region of historical Artsakh. Until the
beginning of XX century, farmers were Armenians, while incoming Turkic
tribes led a nomadic life. "Cultivators are the Armenians and Molokans,
immigrants from Russia. Tatar population is almost entirely nomadic,"
the Tiflis sheet newspaper (¹ 139, c.2) testifies in 1902. There are
Armenian fortress Tumasaberd of IV-VII centuries, Hudaferi bridge
across the Araks river of VII-XIII centuries in the region.

Fizuli district is a part of Dizak region of historical Artsakh. The
last Armenian village Hogher in the early 1980’s was deprived of its
indigenous inhabitants.

There are more than 1600 Armenian monuments dated from the ancient
era in the southern Nagorno-Karabakh, Lachin and Kelbajar regions
of Nagorno-Karabakh is, and only about 80 monuments not belonging
to Armenian culture since the XIX century. There is virtually not a
single mosque in the region.