Chartar

The name Chartar is of Armenian origin, meaning "dexterous, crafty".[http://www.nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=7&query=%D5%B3%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80 Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979) “ճարտար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press][http://www.nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=26&query=%D5%B3%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80 Awetikʿean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ճարտար”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy][http://www.nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=16&query=%D5%B3%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80 Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879) “ճարտար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy]

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The area of Chartar is one of ancient Armenian settlement, being home to various monasteries, churches, and khachkars from the 12th-19th centuries.{{cite book|last1= Hakobyan|first1= Tadevos Kh.|last2= Melik-Bakhshyan|first2= Stepan T.|last3= Barseghyan|first3= Hovhannes Kh.|author-link1= Tadevos Hakobyan|trans-title= Dictionary of Toponyms of Armenia and Adjacent Territories|chapter= Ճարտար [Čartar]|title= Հայաստանի և հարակից շրջանների տեղանունների բառարան|chapter-url= http://www.nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=61&dt=HY_HY&pageNumber=2670|volume= 3|publisher= Yerevan State University Press|year= 1991|page= 606|oclc= 247335945|language= hy}} Traditionally, it was part of the diocese of the Amaras Monastery. The modern town was populated by Armenians mostly from Agulis, Maghavuz, and Khachen. The town of Chartar was created out of a merger of the four villages of Ghuze Chartar, Ghuze Kaler, Gyune Chartar and Gyune Kaler.

During the Soviet period, the town was a part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

Historical heritage sites in and around Chartar include Chartar Fortress (from between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE), the Kohak Church (from between the 10th and 13th centuries), the St. Yeghishe Church from 1655, the church of Surb Amenaprkich ({{langx|hy|Սուրբ Ամենափրկիչ}}, {{lit|Holy Savior}}) founded in 1787, and the 19th-century

St. George's Church ({{langx|hy|Սուրբ Գևորգ եկեղեցի|Surb Gevorg Yekeghetsi}}).{{cite book|last1=Kiesling|first1=Brady|first2=Raffi|last2=Kojian|year=2019|title=Rediscovering Armenia: An in-depth inventory of villages and monuments in Armenia and Artsakh|edition=3rd|publisher=Armeniapedia Publishing}}{{Cite web|url=https://artsakhlib.am/en/2018/06/06/%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%B2%D5%A5%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82-%D5%AC%D5%B2%D5%B0-%D5%BE%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B9%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AE%D6%84%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6-%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%B8/|title=Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)|author=Hakob Ghahramanyan}} The St. Vardanank Church ({{langx|hy|Սուրբ Վարդանանք եկեղեցի|Surb Vardanank Yekeghetsi}}) was consecrated in 2018 in Chartar.{{cite web|url=https://artsakhpress.am/arm/news/88317/tchartar-qaxaqum-texi-e-unecel-srb-vardananq-ekexecu-otsman-handisavor-araroxutyuny.html|website=Artsakh Press|title=Ճարտար քաղաքում տեղի է ունեցել Սրբ Վարդանանք եկեղեցու օծման հանդիսավոր արարողությունը|date=2018-06-16}}

The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, five schools, an art school, two kindergartens, nine shops, a hospital, and a medical centre.

According to the Caucasian calendar for 1910, the population of the village by 1908 was 2,757 people, mostly Armenians. {{cite journal|title=Кавказский календарь на 1910 год|trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1910|lang= ru|edition= 65|location= Tiflis|publisher= Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom|year=1910|page= 233|url= https://www.prlib.ru/item/417314}} By the beginning of 1914, 2,350 inhabitants were recorded, also predominantly Armenians.{{cite journal|title=Кавказский календарь на 1915 год|trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1915|lang= ru|location= Tiflis|publisher= Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom|year=1915|page= 114|url= https://www.prlib.ru/item/417320}}

Chartar had 3,951 inhabitants in 2005 (with the census divided between "Chartar" with 2,213 inhabitants and "Ghuze Chartar" with 1,738 inhabitants),{{Cite web|url=http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/1-1.pdf|title=The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic|website=National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh|access-date=2021-04-07|archive-date=2011-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302100506/http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/1-1.pdf|url-status=dead}} and 4,100 inhabitants in 2015.

Սևակ Ղուկասյանի անվան մարզամշակութային պալատ.jpg|Chartar House of Culture (also called the "Sports and Cultural Palace" of Chartar)

Հուշարձան Երկրորդ աշխարհամարտում զոհվածների, Ճարտար, Մարտունի.jpg|WWII monument

Խաչքար «Սբ. Եղիշե» եկեղեցու բակում, 13-րդ դար.jpg|13th-century khachkar near the St. Yeghishe Church

Տապանաքար, Եկեղեցի «Սբ. Եղիշե», Ղշավանք.jpg|Tombstone near the St. Yeghishe Church

Guzeychartar.jpg|A view of the town

Արցախյան ազատամարտում զոհված նահատակների հուշարձան.jpg|Monument to the fallen in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Ամրոց «Ճարտարի բերդ», մ.թ.ա. 1 դ. - 13 դ.jpg|Chartar Fortress

«Սբ. Եղիշե» եկեղեցու խորանը.jpg|St. Yeghishe Church interior

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