Bahlul, Azerbaijan

Place in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan

Bahlul / Pahlul Bəhlul / Փահլուլ
39°49′N 46°44′E / 39.817°N 46.733°E / 39.817; 46.733
Country	Azerbaijan
City	Stepanakert (Khankendi)
Time zone	UTC+4

Bahlul (Azerbaijani: Bəhlul) or Pahlul (Armenian: Փահլուլ) is a village near the city of Stepanakert in Azerbaijan.

History

In June 1919, the village and the neighboring villages of Ghaibalishen (Khaibalikend), Jamilli, and Karkijahan were looted and destroyed in the Khaibalikend massacre with 600-700 ethnic Armenians being killed by armed Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Hovannisian, Richard. The Republic of Armenia: Vol. I, The First Year, 1918-1919. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971, pp. 176-177, notes 51-52.
^ (in Armenian) Vratsian, Simon. Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն (The Republic of Armenia). Paris: H.H.D. Amerikayi Publishing, 1928, pp. 286-87.