40°07′11″N 44°22′39″E / 40.11972°N 44.37750°E
Hayanist
Հայանիստ | |
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 Hayanist as seen from the air in the background | |
  Hayanist  Hayanist | |
| Coordinates: 40°07′11″N 44°22′39″E / 40.11972°N 44.37750°E | |
| Country | Armenia |
| Province | Ararat |
| Municipality | Masis |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 2,500 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 |
Hayanist (Armenian: Հայանիստ) is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. The distance from Yerevan is 15.4 km. Despite the favourable location of the community (proximity to Yerevan and abundance of good agricultural land), most households cannot provide for their living and heads of families often chose the labour migration as the only solution of their problems. Around 160 hectares of the community's agricultural land are not irrigated.
Etymology
The village was originally known as Gharaghshlar,[1] Gharaghshlagh,[2] or Kara-Kishlak[3] (Armenian: Ղարաղշլաղ, romanized: Ġaraġšlaġ;[4] Russian: Каракишляг, romanized: Karakishlyag;[5] Azerbaijani: Qarakışlaq[6]), meaning black kishlak. In 1978, the village was renamed Dostlug[2] or Dostlugh (Dostluq, meaning "friendship"); finally, it received the name Hayanist in 1991 following the exodus of its Azerbaijani population.[1]
History
Hayanist, then known as Kara-Kishlak, was part of the Erivan uezd of the Erivan Governorate within the Russian Empire.[5] Bournoutian presents the statistics of the village in the early 20th century as follows:[3]
| Ownership | Private |
|---|---|
| Inhabited space | 10.3 desyatinas (0.11 sq km) |
| Orrigated plowed fields | 209 desyatinas (2.28 sq km) |
| Unirrigated fodder fields | 4.75 desyatinas (0.05 sq km) |
| Total land | 224.5 desyatinas (2.45 sq km) |
| Total households | 110 (All Tatar[lower-alpha 1]) |
| Total income | 8,414.65 rubles |
| Total land taxes | 655.78 rubles |
| Army tax | 142.29 rubles |
| Upkeep of officials | 456.87 rubles |
| Total revenue | 1,254.94 rubles |
| Large livestock | 176 |
| Units of water used for irrigation | 8 |
In 1988–1989, the village's Azerbaijani population was exchanged with Armenians from Azerbaijan during the tensions of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[1]
Demographics
The population of Hayanist since 1831 is as follows:[4][9]
| Year | Population | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1831 | 151 | 100% Muslim |
| 1873 | 735 | 100% Tatar[lower-alpha 1] |
| 1886 | 751 | |
| 1897 | 1,007 | 100% Muslim |
| 1904 | 832 | |
| 1914 | 1,123 | Mainly Tatar |
| 1916 | 1,052 | |
| 1919 | 0 | |
| 1922 | 537 | 514 Turks, 23 Armenians |
| 1926 | 754 | 753 Turks, 1 Armenian; 398 men |
| 1931 | 850 | 100% Turkish |
| 1959 | 1,179 | |
| 1970 | 1,843 | |
| 1979 | 1,896 | |
| 2001 | 2,144 | |
| 2004 | 2,074 | |
| 2015 | 2,500 |
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Notes
- 1 2 Before 1918, Azerbaijanis were generally known as "Tatars". This term, employed by the Russians, referred to Turkic-speaking Muslims of the South Caucasus. After 1918, with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and "especially during the Soviet era", the Tatar group identified itself as "Azerbaijani".[7][8]
References
- 1 2 3 Kiesling, Brady (June 2000). Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 November 2021.
- 1 2 Hovannisian 1996a, p. 443.
- 1 2 Bournoutian 2018.
- 1 2 Korkotyan, Zaven (1932). Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) [The population of Soviet Armenia in the last century (1831–1931)] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Pethrat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2022.
- 1 2 Кавказский календарь на 1910 год [Caucasian calendar for 1910] (in Russian) (65th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1910. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022.
- ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan. "Hayanist". Index Anatolicus (in Turkish). Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ↑ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ↑ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ↑ Հայաստանի Հանրապետության բնակավայրերի բառարան [Republic of Armenia settlements dictionary] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018.
Bibliography
- Bournoutian, George A. (2018). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2. OCLC 1037283914.
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1996a). The Republic of Armenia: From London to Sèvres, February–August 1920. Vol. 3. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520088030.
- Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.
Further reading
- ME&A / Clean Energy and Water Program - "Irrigation Rehabilitation in Hayanist Village", USAID
