Turshsu Explained

Official Name:Turshsu / Lisagor
Native Name:Turşsu / Լիսագոր
Pushpin Map:Azerbaijan
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type2:Country
Subdivision Name2: Azerbaijan
Subdivision Type3: District
Subdivision Name3:Shusha
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2015
Population Total:130
Utc Offset:+4
Coordinates:39.6875°N 46.6431°W

Turshsu (Azerbaijani: Turşsu) or Lisagor (Armenian: Լիսագոր) is a village that is in the Shusha District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population before they fled the fighting of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[2]

History

At least from the 12th-13th centuries, the settlements of Tsarist and Sour Water existed. The village was named Ttu jur from the famous Ttu jur spring near the settlement.

The village was founded in the beginning of the 20th century as the Russian settlement of Lysogor (Russian: Лысогор) in the Shusha Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate in the Russian Empire.[3] In 1914, 36 people lived in the village, mostly Russians.[4]

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Shusha District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

Economy and culture

The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a secondary school, and a medical centre. The Lisagor branch of the Shushi Children's Music School is also located in the village.[1]

Demographics

The village had 88 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 130 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015). Hakob Ghahramanyan.
  2. Web site: Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война . Андрей Зубов. drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. Book: L.G. Guliyeva, F.A.Mamedbeyli, E.A.Geydarova, G.O. Kerimova.. Dictionary of the Russian insular dialect of Azerbaijan. 2nd. Baku. Baku State University Publishing House. 2006.
  4. Book: Caucasian Calendar. A.A. Elzenger & N.P. Strelamshchuk. Tbilisi. Printing house of the Chancellery of the Governor E. I. V. in the Caucasus. 1914. 153.
  5. Web site: The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.