Kusapat

Kusapat (Armenian: Կուսապատ; Azerbaijani: Qasapet) is a village de facto in the Martakert Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population as well as a Greek minority. The village also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]

Kusapat
Կուսապատ
Qasapet
One of the 11 mills of the Atabekians in Kusapat
Kusapat
Kusapat
Coordinates: AZ 40°10′36″N 46°43′51″E
Country (de facto) Artsakh
 • ProvinceMartakert
Country (de jure) Azerbaijan
 • DistrictTartar
Elevation
776 m (2,546 ft)
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total259
Time zoneUTC+4 (AMT)

History

Kusapat, one of the oldest villages of Nagorno-Karabakh, was founded in the 15th century by Armenian Prince Atabek Hasan-Jalalyan (1411), the fifth son of Prince Jalal III of the Hasan Jalalyan dynasty. Being the youngest son, Atabek inherited his father's fiefdom Tziranakar fortress that was on the outskirts of ancestral domains, and the older son of Jalalyan inherited Vank fortress (today Gandzasar monastery). From the old fortress village got its name of Kisapat, that in local Armenian dialect means "half of the wall".[3]

By Prince Atabek of Jraberd started the Atabekyans line and Kusapat with seven surrounding villages became the ancestral domain of their princely house. At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century in Kusapat lived the famous Melik-Vani Atabekyan, who was one of the leaders of the Artsakh Armenians and did a lot for the establishment of Russian rule in Karabakh after the Russo-Persian War (1804–13).[3]

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

Kusapat was badly damaged during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. On 7 July 1992 the village was captured and destroyed by the Azerbaijani army. On 16 July 1992, it was recaptured by Artsakh.

Demographics

The village had 276 inhabitants in 2005,[4] and 259 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

References
  1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. "1892 Publication Recounts History of 15th Century Armenian Village in Artsakh". August 7, 2015.
  4. "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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