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Hayanist

Coordinates: 40°07′11″N 44°22′39″E / 40.11972°N 44.37750°E / 40.11972; 44.37750
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40°07′11″N 44°22′39″E / 40.11972°N 44.37750°E / 40.11972; 44.37750

Hayanist
Հայանիստ
Hayanist as seen from the air in the background
Hayanist as seen from the air in the background
Hayanist is located in Armenia
Hayanist
Hayanist
Hayanist is located in Ararat
Hayanist
Hayanist
Coordinates: 40°07′11″N 44°22′39″E / 40.11972°N 44.37750°E / 40.11972; 44.37750
CountryArmenia
ProvinceArarat
MunicipalityMasis
Population
 (2015)
 • Total
2,500
Time zoneUTC+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

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The village was originally known as Gharaghshlar,[1] Gharaghshlagh,[2] or Kara-Kishlak[3] (Armenian: Ղարաղշլաղ, romanizedĠaraġšlaġ;[4] Russian: Каракишляг, romanizedKarakishlyag;[5] Azerbaijani: Qaraqışlaq[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

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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[a])
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

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The population of Hayanist since 1831 is as follows:[4][9]

Year Population Note
1831 151 100% Muslim
1873 735 100% Tatar[a]
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

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  1. ^ a b 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

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  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ a b Hovannisian 1996a, p. 443.
  3. ^ a b Bournoutian 2018.
  4. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ a b 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.
  6. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan. "Hayanist". Index Anatolicus (in Turkish). Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  7. ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
  8. ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
  9. ^ 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

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Further reading

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  • ME&A / Clean Energy and Water Program - "Irrigation Rehabilitation in Hayanist Village", USAID