THE DWELLING HOUSES IN BARDA POPULATION (IN XIX CENTURY AND BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURIES) (on the basis of the field-ethnographic materials)

Abstract

The presented article provides the information about the typology, structure of the dwelling houses and their subsequent development existed in XIX and XX centuries in Barda city (village) located in the territory of flat Karabagh on the basis of the ethnographic-field materials that were collected from the scientific literatures concerning XIX-XX centuries and from the residents of Barda region. The economic traditions of the Barda population, the construction materials existed here, their economic way of living and ethnic features are among the factors that greatly affect on the form and type diversity of the dwelling houses. Because the population was engaged in husbandry and cattle-breeding, they had constructed the dwelling houses with permanent and seasonal character in accordance with such a lifestyle. Along with the form and variety of the lighting and heating devices of the houses and investigating them according to their development dynamics, the issues such as a place of carpet and other products in the internal comfort of these dwelling houses are touched in this article as well.