Qazax 

Qazax is a rayon of Azerbaijan. It has two exclaves inside Armenia, Yukhari Askipara and Barkhudarli, Sofulu both of which got here beneath Armenian control at some point of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The region turned into conquered by means of a succession of neighbouring powers or invaders, which include Sassanid Persians, the Byzantine Empire, the Arabs, the Seljuq Turks, the Georgians, the Mongols, the Timurids, the Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koyunlu Turkoman tribes, and ultimately Safavid Iran. It become additionally ruled by using Ottoman Empire between 1578 and 1607 and once more 1722 and 1735. After the Russo-Persian War , the Russian Empire gained control of the area through virtue of the Treaty of Gulistan. Under Russian rule, it became part of Tiflis Governorate before forming the northeastern a part of the Kazakh uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate in 1868.

A contemporary navy historian stated the subsequent ethnographic element: "Abbas Mirza's direction lay via the usa of the wonderful tribe of the Casaks, that is extremely sturdy and thickly wooded. He in addition notes that: "These haven't any connection with the Russian Cossacks. They are descended from guys of the Kirgis Casaks, left by means of Genghis Khan. They are frequently known as Kara Papaks, from sporting black sheep-pores and skin caps.