YENGIJA

A village in the central part of Vedibasar district, in the Agrydag valley, 5 km southwest of the village of Boyuk Vedi, the center of the Vedi district, on the Boyuk river, a tributary of the Vedi river.­

Until 1920, only Azerbaijani Turks lived in the village. From 1922 to 1988, it was a mixed village, where Azerbaijanis and Armenians lived together. In 1988, the Azerbaijani population of the village was expelled, the village was completely Armenized.­

In the village of Yengija, which suffered great destruction during the Russian-Iranian and Russian-Ottoman wars of 1826-1829, in 1832, in 1832, a Muslim population of only 37 people (18 men, 19 women) was registered in 4 households.

In 1873, 189 Azerbaijanis (104 men, 85 women) lived in 18 households in the village, in 1886, 197 people (138 men, 59 women) lived in 23  households, in 1897 - 313 people, in 1904 - 470 people, in 1914 - 475 people.

1918-     One of the villages most destroyed during the Armenian-Muslim conflict of the 1920s was the village of Yengija.­ Like all Vedibasarians who were forced to temporarily leave their native land, the refugees of the village of Yengidja were able to return only during the years of Soviet power. In 1922, the number of villagers who returned from emigration was 162.­­­ However, in the same year, the state placed 187 Armenians who arrived from Turkey in the village.­

And in 1931, the population of the village was in the following ratio: 182 Azerbaijanis, 192 Armenians.

In 1948-1953, part of the rural population was deported and resettled in Azerbaijan, and Armenians brought from abroad were settled in the liberated Azerbaijani houses.­

During the genocide of Western Azerbaijanis in 1988, the Azerbaijani population of the village was brutally expelled and the village was completely Armenized.­

In 1991, the name of the village of Yengije was renamed to Sisavan.

1919-     In 1919, the village of Yengije was subjected to a powerful Armenian attack, and since then the building of the village mosque has been burned by the Dashnaks. Until 1988, the ruins of this mosque remained in the village, on the edge of the street that stretched along the Boyuk River.

When trying to build a farm in the hills above Yengije, an ancient cemetery was discovered on a large territory. The size of these graves­(up to 3 meters in length) clearly proved that these are Oguz burial grounds. People called this place Oguz cemetery. However, the Armenians hid this fact from the public.

The cemetery of rural Muslims of Engije previously belonged to the Garalar rural cemetery between the villages of Engije and Garalar. In the 1950s, Armenians personally liquidated a part of this cemetery belonging to the residents of Yengije and laid apple orchards of the Garalar village collective farm in its place.­ The new cemetery of the village of Engije was laid on the outskirts of the village.