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The village of Mekhlughavakh is located 27 km from the district center of Kutkashen (Gabala). The first component of the village name derives from a distorted local pronunciation of the name Mikayel.
The settlement was mentioned in written sources as early as 1725. When representatives of other Armenian-populated villages of the Kapaghak district signed a petition for assistance addressed to the Russian Emperor Peter I, among them was Nasip from Mekhlughavakh, who was probably the village headman.
In the 18th century, like the Armenians of other Armenian-populated villages in the Kutkashen district, the inhabitants of Mekhlughavakh were also forced to convert to Islam. As a result, the Armenian population of the village became isolated from the Armenian milieu and came to be identified as Turkic-Tatars. According to data from 1914, the inhabitants of the village were recorded as Tatars. Today, Mekhlughavakh is an Azerbaijani-populated village.
Bibliography
Barkhutaryants, M. The Land of Aghvank and Its Neighbors. Artsakh. Yerevan, 1999, p 147-148.
Karapetyan, S. Armenian Inscriptions of Proper Aghvank, Book I. Yerevan: NAS RA “Gitutyun” Publishing House, 1997, pp. 34-35.
Karapetyan, S. Aghvank Proper, Research on Armenian Architecture Foundation, 2024, Book 22, Part 1, p. 265.
Kavkazskiy Kalendar for 1915. Tiflis, 1914, p. 157.
G. A. Ezov, Relations of Peter the Great with the Armenian People. Documents. St. Petersburg, 1898, pp. 427–428.