Fizuli province

The next settlement also populated by Armenians until the end of the XIX century was Akarum or Khalafsha, It is situated on the eastern slope of the gorge, 5 km southwest of the administrative centre Fizuli, and barely 1 km away of the Hadrut district border, NKR. Its altitude is 500-650 m above the sea.
Unfortunately, there are only a few archive records, which could spread some light on the history of Akarum. The only thing we could say is that probably there were eight Armenian households (58 people, of which 32 men and 26 female) in 1886, in conformity with the same source, the majority of the villagers at that time were Azerbaijanian (33 households. 110 male and 95 female residents). Another statistical document of 1889 indicated that the number of Armenian villagers in Akarum was 122 (59 male and 63 female). Apparently, the Armenians of this mixed village left it during the following decade, because the statistical records executed in the late XIX - early XX centuries do not mention any Armenians at all. In 1914 Khalafsha (the Turkish name of the same village) was monoethnical and had 255 Turkish residents. Remains of the Armenian cemetery are still preserved in the western quarter of the village.