Xırmancıq

Khirmanjyg / Tsaghkavank Xırmancıq / Ծաղկավանք
Khirmanjyg / Tsaghkavank
Coordinates: 39°32′37″N 47°05′27″E
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Khojavend
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	4
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Khirmanjyg (Azerbaijani: Xırmancıq) or Tsaghkavank (Armenian: Ծաղկավանք) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]

History

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

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին, lit. 'Holy Mother of God'), and a 19th-century cemetery.[3]

Demographics

The village had 16 inhabitants in 2005,[4] and 4 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. Kiesling, Brady; Kojian, Raffi (2019). Rediscovering Armenia: An in-depth inventory of villages and monuments in Armenia and Artsakh (3rd ed.). Armeniapedia Publishing.
4. "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.

External links

• Xırmancıq at GEOnet Names Server