The Khoshavat village in the Ismayilli district

2025-08-04

Khoshavat was an Armenian village located 27.9 km southwest of the Ismayilli district center. Sources do not mention any information on the founding date of the settlement. According to records, in 1831 the village had 47 Armenian inhabitants, and in 1897—65. In 1908, the number of Armenians in the village reached 71. According to preserved statistical data, in 1909 the Armenian population of Khoshavat reached 275 people. The same figure was recorded in 1910. In 1912, 279 Armenians lived in the village.

There was no church in Khoshavat. The residents of Khoshavat used to attend the church in the nearby Armenian village of Bozavand. This is the reason why, in the work of Makar Barkhutaryants, the inhabitants of Khoshavat were listed among the faithful parishioners of Bozavand (12 households).

In the summer of 1918, along with many other Armenian settlements, the village of Khoshavat was also destroyed and looted by Turkish-Tatar forces. The surviving residents of Khoshavat left the village and never returned.

When Samvel Karapetyan visited the village site in 1984, there were no traces left of the former settlement.

Bibliography

Barkhutaryants M., Land of Aghvank and its Neighbors: Artsakh, Yerevan, 1999, p. 110, 2^nd reference.

Karapetyan, S., Aghvank Proper, Part 1, Yerevan, 2024, pp. 143-144.

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