Çağadüz

Chaghaduz / Sargsashen Çağadüz / Սարգսաշեն
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Coordinates: 39°41′31″N 46°53′42″E
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Khojavend
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	285
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Chaghaduz (Azerbaijani: Çağadüz) or Sargsashen (Armenian: Սարգսաշեն) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

History

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Martuni Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a shrine from between the 2nd millennium BCE and the 17th century BCE, the fortress-settlement of Jaghaduz (Armenian: Ջաղադուզ) from the 3rd century BCE, khachkars from between the 11th and 12th centuries, and 19th-century watermills.[1]

Demographics

The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.[2] Prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, it also had an Armenian majority with 264 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 285 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

References

1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
2. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
3. "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.

External links

• Çağadüz at GEOnet Names Server