ARBAT

Village in Zangibasar district, 16 km northwest of the village Uluhanli, the center of Zangibasar district, on the right bank of the river Zangi.

Before 1918 (except for a short period after 1828) in the village lived only Azerbaijani Turks, and in 1922-1988 - Azerbaijanis and Armenians.

In 1832 there were 264 Azerbaijanis (139 men, 125 women) in 50 households and 127 Armenians of Iranian origin (61 men, 66 women) in 31 households in the village. The statistics of 1873 show only registered Azerbaijanis in the village- 527 people (280 men, 247 women) in 74 households - which suggests that the Armenians who came here in later years left the village and moved to villages where Armenian refugees prevailed.

At the time of the 1886 census, only Azerbaijani Turks lived in the village: 538 people (314 men, 224 women) in 88 households.

In 1897 there were 671 people living in the village, in 1905 - 754 people, in 1914 - 780 people.

In 1918-1919, the village of Arbat was attacked by Armenian barbarians, was looted, destroyed and burned, part of its population was killed and the survivors fled to another part of Araz - to Turkey.

In 1922 a small number of refugees from the village were able to return to their homeland, but when they returned they encountered Armenians from Turkey, who had been resettled in the village by the Armenian Dashnaks. Since then, the village has become an assimilated village, where Azerbaijanis and Armenians lived together. But the local population, the Azerbaijanis, still had the advantage. Thus, in 1922 there were 263 Azerbaijanis and 138 Armenians registered in the village, in 1926 - 341 Azerbaijanis and 214 Armenians, and in 1931 - 356 Azerbaijanis and 263 Armenians.

During the famous deportation of 1949, the entire Azerbaijani population of the village was forcibly relocated to Azerbaijan. Although individual families later returned and lived in the village, they were also expelled from the village during the 1988 genocide, and this ancient Azerbaijani village was completely Armenianized.