Charektar

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title: "Charektar" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-kalbajar-district"] description: "Village in Azerbaijan" topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-kalbajar-district" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charektar" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Azerbaijan ::

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Field	Value
official_name	Charektar
native_name	Չարեքտար
Çərəkdar
image_skyline	Charektar006.JPG
pushpin_map	Azerbaijan#East Zangezur
subdivision_type2	Country
subdivision_name2	Azerbaijan
subdivision_type3	District
subdivision_name3	Aghdara
population_footnotes
population_as_of	2015
population_total	262
timezone	AZT
utc_offset	+4
coordinates
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Charektar (; ) is a village in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to their exodus during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Before 2023, it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its claimed Shahumyan Province.

Etymology

The name Charektar is of Persian origin.

History

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Chareqthar,Mesropavanq_monastery-_panoramio.jpg" caption="The 12th/13th-century Charektar Monastery (Mesropavank)"] ::

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, and was incorporated into the Shahumyan Province of the Republic of Artsakh after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 12th/13th-century Charektar Monastery and a 12th/13th-century khachkar.

Economy and culture

The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a secondary school, and a medical centre.

Demographics

In 1912, the village had 199 inhabitants, mostly Caucasian Tatars (Azerbaijanis). In 1993 the village had 202 Azerbaijani inhabitants. The inhabitants of the village fled during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and Charektar was subsequently settled by Armenians.

The village had an Armenian-majority population of 159 inhabitants in 2005, and 262 inhabitants in 2015.

Gallery

Charektar003.JPG Charektar007.JPG Charektar004.JPG Charektar1.JPG

References

References

1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
2. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война".
3. Arsène Saparov. (2017-09-01). "Contested spaces: the use of place-names and symbolic landscape in the politics of identity and legitimacy in Azerbaijan". Central Asian Survey.
4. Caucasian Calendar 1912. p.223
5. Административное деление АССР. — Баку: Издание АзУНХУ, 1933.
6. "Population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2005)".

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