Horovlu
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Horovlu (Gorovlu, and Khorovlu) village within the administrative-territorial unit of the same name in the Jabrayil district of Azerbaijan,{{cite book |url=http://anl.az/el/Kitab/252514.pdf |title=Azərbaycan toponimlərinin ensiklopedik lüğəti |date=2007 |publisher=Şərq-Qərb |isbn=978-9952-34-156-0 |edition= |series= |volume=I |location=Baku |page= |pages=230 |at= |language=az |chapter= |format= |ref= |chapter-url= |issue= |agency= |orig-year= |access-date=2024-01-22 |archive-date=2021-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217192805/http://anl.az/el/Kitab/252514.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web |author=Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi |date=2019 |title=İnzibati ərazi bölgüsü təsnifatı |url=https://www.stat.gov.az/menu/5/source/Inzibati_tes.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416203250/https://www.stat.gov.az/menu/5/source/Inzibati_tes.pdf |archive-date=2020-04-16 |access-date=2021-06-23 |publisher=stat.gov.az |language=az}} located on a plain, 8 km east of the city of Jabrayil.{{cite book |author= |url= |title=hоровлу // Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia |publisher=National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan |year=1987 |volume=X |location=Baku |page=267 |language=az}}
It was occupied by the Armed Forces of Armenia between 1993 and late 2020.{{Cite web |title=Cəbrayılın Horovlu kəndi iriməntəqə kimi dirçəldilir |url=https://xalqqazeti.az/az/sosial-heyat/137835-cebrayilin-horovlu-kendi-irimenteqe-kimi |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Xalqqazeti.az |language=az |archive-date=2024-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127084150/https://xalqqazeti.az/az/sosial-heyat/137835-cebrayilin-horovlu-kendi-irimenteqe-kimi |url-status=live }}
Etymology
According to the “Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Toponyms of Azerbaijan”, the name of the village comes from the name of Horov village in Iranian Azerbaijan, people from which having resettled here in the 19th century, founded the village.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-24 |title=Cəbrayıl rayonunun Horovlu kəndi |url=https://azertag.az/xeber/cebrayil_rayonunun_horovlu_kendi-2226683 |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Azerbaijan State News Agency |archive-date=2022-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724082300/https://azertag.az/xeber/Cebrayil_rayonunun_Horovlu_kendi-2226683 |url-status=live }}
History
During the years of the Russian Empire, the village was part of Jabrayil district, Elizavetpol province. During the Soviet years, the village was part of the Horovlu village council, Jabrayil district, Azerbaijan SSR. The village was captured by Armenian forces in the First Karabakh War and was destroyed.
The BBC reported that all liberated villages, according to Azerbaijan, in the south, judging by satellite images, lie in ruins and have been completely or almost completely abandoned since the Azerbaijani population left them in the early 1990s to escape the advancing Armenians.{{cite news|title=Война в Карабахе, первая неделя: новая роль Турции и решимость Азербайджана|url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-54411929|agency=ВВС|date=2020-10-04|access-date=2020-10-17|archive-date=2020-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103110826/https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-54411929|url-status=live}}
On the evening of 4 October 2020, on AzTV, the state television channel, in a life transmission, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, in an address to the people, stated that the Azerbaijani Army liberated nine villages of the Jabrayil district: Karkhulu, Shukurbayli, Charakan, Dashkesen, Horovlu, Mahmudlu, Jafarabad, Yukhary-Maralyan and Dajal.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-04 |title=“Cəbrayıl şəhəri və rayonun 9 kəndi işğaldan azad edilib” — Prezident |url=https://qafqazinfo.az/news/detail/cebrayilin-9-kendi-isgaldan-azad-edilib-300573 |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Qafqazinfo |language=az |archive-date=2020-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009032303/https://qafqazinfo.az/news/detail/cebrayilin-9-kendi-isgaldan-azad-edilib-300573 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-04 |title=Cəbrayılın işğaldan azad edilən 9 kəndi |url=https://report.az/qarabag/cebrayilin-9-kendi-isgaldan-azad-olunub/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Report İnformasiya Agentliyi |language=az |archive-date=2024-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127083405/https://report.az/qarabag/cebrayilin-9-kendi-isgaldan-azad-olunub/ |url-status=live }}
On May 4, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited the village, taking part in the ceremony of laying the foundation of the village.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-04 |title=Cəbrayılın Horovlu kəndinin təməli qoyulub |url=https://report.az/qarabag/cebrayilin-horovlu-kendinin-temeli-qoyulub/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Report İnformasiya Agentliyi |language=az |archive-date=2024-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127083557/https://report.az/qarabag/cebrayilin-horovlu-kendinin-temeli-qoyulub/ |url-status=live }}
Population
According to the “Code of statistical data of the Transcaucasian region population, extracted from the family lists of 1886”, in the village of Horovlu, Horovlu rural district there were 184 dym and here lived 894 Azerbaijanis (indicated as “Tatars”), who were peasants.{{cite book |author= |url=https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000199_000009_005403186/ |title=Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказского края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г. |date=1893 |publisher= |isbn= |edition= |series= |volume= |location=Tiflis |page= |pages=235 |at= |chapter= |format= |ref= |chapter-url= |issue= |agency= |orig-year= |access-date=2024-01-22 |archive-date=2021-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211105709/https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000199_000009_005403186/ |url-status=live }}
According to the publication “Administrative Division of the ASSR”, prepared in 1933 by the Department of National Economic Accounting of the Azerbaijan SSR (AzNEA), as of 1 January 1933 in the village of Horovlu, which was the centre of the Horovlu village council (villages of Chapand, Papy), Jabrayil district of Azerbaijan SSR, there were 187 farms and 934 inhabitants. 99.8% of the population of the village council were Turks (Azerbaijanis).{{cite book| author = | chapter = | chapter-url = | format = | url = | title = Административное деление АССР. | orig-year = | agency = | edition = |location= Б. |date = 1933 |publisher= Издание АзУНХУ |at= |volume= |issue = | pages = 24| page = | series = | isbn = | ref = }}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFORFToUEsY The master plan of Jabrayil's Horovlu village, which will be rebuilt]
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