TODAY'S LACHIN IS THE HISTORICAL ARMENIAN AGAKHECH.

Abstract

The arguments of Ghevond Alishan's book "Sisakan" confirm that the old province of Agakhech was originally an Armenian territory with Armenian villages, churches, buildings, strongholds and had connections with neighboring provinces: Tsghuk, Khabandi, Artsakh.

It is no coincidence that 43 villages of Aghachechka were taxpayers of the Syunik Church, and the villages of Arpa-ketik, Odzaberd (Khtsaberd) and the Chrachadzor Church near Harar in the southeastern region were taxpayers of the fortress city of Tokh in Dizak Marz.

The names of villages, rivers, mountains and landmarks of foreigners, recorded in Agakhechka, arose later, as Alishan notes, due to wars, with the arrival of foreigners from Agvan, but also from different places, there was no other way to determine. To armenize and turkify Agakhechka. Muslims, Kurds, Tajiks, Arabs, Turks entered there.

During the Soviet rule, starting from the 1920s, the former Agakhech became Lachi and was part of the Shusha district of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region. From Stepanakert and Shusha to Lachin and to the border with Goris, there were very bad, dilapidated and rocky roads.

When, after the first Artsakh war, in 1991-1994, Shushi and Lachin became Armenian, they were restored, new residents appeared, a developed culture, new life and prosperity.

From the scientific descriptions and comments of Ghevond Alishan, it became clear that the province of Agakhech was originally the territory of Armenia, then foreigners arrived here, especially Kurds, who gradually became Turkified Azerbaijanis, citizens of Azerbaijan.