Zar (Azerbaijani pronunciation: [zɑɾ]; Armenian: Ծար, romanized: Tsar; pronounced [tsɑɾ], also Tzar) is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan.

In the records of Dadivank Monastery in 1763, it is referred to as Mets Tsar (Armenian: Մեծ Ծար, lit.

However, as soon as Nadir Shah left town, Nazı's family went to Zaza's house and murdered him before throwing his body into a well.

[3] The history of the village goes back to the early medieval period, when it was the administrative center of the Kingdom of Artsakh's canton of Tsar.

[4] In the middle of the 18th century, Armenian historian Yesai Hasan-Jalalyan of the princely Hasan-Jalalyan family, states that: ... the Grand Duke Hasan owned [the fortresses] Akna, Handaberd, Sotk, Shagvak, and many other gavars (counties), among which he most of all loved the village of Tsar - a fiefdom and a reward for courage, for which the Armenian rulers paid with the price of [their] blood.

[4] Archbishop and scholar Makar Barkhutariants visited Tsar in 1880, noting the many remaining tombs and khachkars around the village, with many having been broken and inscriptions having been erased.

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include medieval tombstones, khachkars from between the 12th and 17th centuries, a 12th/13th-century castle and chapel, the church of Surb Grigor (Armenian: Սուրբ Գրիգոր, lit. 'St.

Armenian churches, monasteries and cemeteries in the village started to be destroyed by Kurds at the end of the 19th century, and the destruction continued on a larger scale during the Soviet period, especially during the 1940s and 1950s.

The elaborately engraved stones of the church were used to build storehouses, and are now visible in the foundations of barns built by the Azeris.