Western Azerbaijan Heritage

In the village of Hors in Keshikand (Yeghegnad­zor) district of Daralayaz mahal.

In 1728, it was mentioned as Khors in the “Iravan gover­no­­rate review no­tebook”.

Architec­ture

A part of the rich historical mo­­numents, which include the remains of the Albanian church, the Og­huz cemete­ry, the remains of the buildings of the ancient Oral Malukh and Gushkhana vil­la­ges (XIII-XIV centuries), were approp­riated by adding Arme­nian ele­ments, and the rest was comp­le­tely dest­royed .

The village name was first mentioned in historical sources in the 10th century. In this ancient Azerbaijani village, there are many historical monuments of the 12th-14th centuries, remains of the Albanian church, Oghuz cemetery, remains of the buildings of the ancient villages of Oral Malukh and Gushkhana (13th-14th cen­turies). At the end of 1919, the inha­bi­tants of the village were attacked by Ar­menians and completely expelled. Arme­nians from Iran were settled in the villa­ge. After the establishment of the Soviet government in present-day Armenia, sur­vived Azerbaijanis villagers were able to return to their homeland. Along with Armenians, 192 Azerbaijanis lived here in 1922, 172 in 1926, and 234 in 1931. In November 1988, Azerbaijanis were ex­pelled again. Now Armenians live there.

The toponym khors was for­med on the ba­sis of the Tur­kish ethnonym. In the Azer­baija­ni lan­guage, q~x~h sound replace­ment is regular. The ethnonym Khors (hors) is also mentioned in the forms gors, khoros, khurs.