Hasan-Jalalyan

The Hasan-Jalalyan were an Armenian princely house that ruled Khachen in historical Artsakh from 1214. Their founder Hasan-Jalal Dawla inherited his father's lands in 1214 and acquired Dizak-Balk through marriage. He founded Gandzasar monastery, built between 1216 and 1238 and consecrated in 1240, later the seat of the Catholicosate of Albania and the family's burial church.

After the Mongol conquest Hasan-Jalal was arrested and executed around 1262, but his son Atabek was confirmed in Khachen and ruled until 1306. His descendants took the surname Hasan-Jalalyan and retained autonomy under successive overlords. In the late sixteenth century cadet branches established three of the Five Melikdoms of Karabakh.

The meliks fought Ottoman and Persian armies and sought Russian aid. The last melik of Khachen, Allahverdi II, died in 1813, after Russia took the region in 1805.