Zardanashen

Zardanashen Զարդանաշեն
Zərdanaşen
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Coordinates: 39°40′03″N 46°52′50″E
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Khojavend
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	101
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Zardanashen (Armenian: Զարդանաշեն; Azerbaijani: Zərdanaşen) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the 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 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 on 9 November 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 18th/19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին, lit. 'Holy Mother of God').[1]

Demographics

The village had 95 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 101 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

• Zardanashen at GEOnet Names Server