Fizuli province

    The district was established in 1930. In the beginning, before 1959, the district was named in honor of the Russian army commander Koryazin, later renamed. It occupies the area of 1386 sq. km. In conformity with the data of 1986, it comprised I town (the administrative centre) and 71 villages.
    The present-day administrative center - town of Fizuli was established by the Russian colonists in 1827, in a place called Gharabulagh. Later the village was renamed to Koryazino. The town as well as the district was renamed to Fizuli in 1959.
    It is bordering with the Hadrut and Martakert districts of the NKR and Jabrail, Aghjabedi and Baylagan districts of Azerbaijan. The borderline with Iran passes by the Araxes River.
    In the Middle Ages, the present area of the district was included into The historical province of Artsakh, Metz Hayk. In the late medieval period, the main part of the area was included into the Armenian melikal principality (melikutyun) of Dizak.
    Like the districts of Barda. Aghjabedi and Baylagan, the relief of Fizuli is mostly flat. Maybe, the early retreat of the Armenians from this area was conditioned mainly by impossibily to defend. In the course of time, in the XVII-XIX cent. the area was occupied by various Turkish nomadic tribes.
    The Turks of this district still led nomadic way of life until the beginning of the XX cent. Of a few newly established Turkish villages, permanently settled were only the Large and Small Bahmanlus and Maralian.
    The Armenian landmarks are not numerous. They are mostly restricted to the western comparatively mountainous part of the district, adjacent to Hadrut district, NKR, where the Armenians could withstand longer (before 1988 there remained only one village which had an insignificant Armenian population).