Marzili was part of the Shusha Uyezd of Elisabethpol Governorate during the Russian Empire.

[2] According to the 1912 "Caucasian Calendar", the village of Mərzili was home to 1,625 people, the majority of whom were Azerbaijanis (classified as "Tatars" in the census).

[3] Mərzili was part of the village council of the same name in the Aghdam District of the Azerbaijan SSR during the early Soviet period in 1933.

After 1994, it was later incorporated into the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Martuni Province, where it remained a ghost village.

Mərzili was returned to Azerbaijan on 20 November 2020 as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.