Azykh

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Azykh / Azokh
Azıx / Ազոխ
A view of the village
A view of the village
Azykh / Azokh is located in Azerbaijan
Azykh / Azokh
Azykh / Azokh
Coordinates: 39°37′14″N 46°58′42″E / 39.62056°N 46.97833°E / 39.62056; 46.97833Coordinates: 39°37′14″N 46°58′42″E / 39.62056°N 46.97833°E / 39.62056; 46.97833
Country Azerbaijan
 Republic of Artsakh (claimed)[1]
DistrictKhojavend
Elevation
686 m (2,251 ft)
Population
 (2015)[2]
 • Total741
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Azykh (Azerbaijani: Azıx) or Azokh (Armenian: Ազոխ)[3] is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village is situated on the small river Ishkhanchay (Azerbaijani: İşxançay) or Ishkhanaget (Armenian: Իշխանագետ), near the Azykh Cave.

From 1992 to 2020 the village was de facto in the Hadrut Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[4]

Etymology[]

Entrance to the Azykh Cave

According to "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Azerbaijani Toponyms", the name Azykh originates from Old Turkic, meaning "bear den".[5]

According to "Historical-Architectural Monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh", the name Azokh comes from the Armenian word, azokh, meaning "unripe grapes".[6]

History[]

The Azykh Cave, located near the village of Azykh, is actually a six-cave complex, known as a habitation site of prehistoric humans.[7] The ancient layers of the Middle Paleolithic have yielded Neanderthal fossil remains that may date from around 300,000 years ago.[8]

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. In 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces.

On 9 November 2020, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced that the village was under Azerbaijani control.[9] Subsequently, The Guardian and Der Spiegel reported that Azerbaijani forces had committed a war crime by decapitating Yuri Asryan, an 82-year-old Armenian man who did not leave the village on 20 October despite the advance of Azerbaijani forces.[10][11]

Historical heritage sites[]

Azykh contains a number of historical heritage sites, two of which are registered by the Republic of Artsakh as immovable cultural heritage sites.[12] The registered sites are the Azykh Cave, dating back to the Stone Age, located 700 m to the southeast, as well as the 13th-century Tsiltakhach bridge, located 1 km to the southeast.[13][14][15] In addition, the village contains the 17th-century St. Astvatsatsin Church - a 14 m long and 8 m wide stone building built on two arches,[13][14] and a historical cemetery dating from between the 10th and 19th centuries.[13] Amarkhatun Monastery, Tsitskar Fortress, and Melik Sagam's battlement are also located near the village.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "Արցախի տարածքները համարվում են օկուպացված Ադրբեջանի կողմից. ԱՀ ԱԺ հայտարարությունը" [The territories of the Artsakh Republic, which are under the control of Azerbaijan so far, are considered to be occupied by the Republic of Azerbaijan]. armenpress.am (in Armenian). 1 March 2021. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  2. ^ Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  3. ^ "Azix, Azerbaijan". Falling Rain.
  4. ^ Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  5. ^ "Azərbaycan toponimlərinin ensiklopedik lüğəti" ("Энциклопедический словарь азербайджанских топонимов" в 2-х томах). — 2007. — Баку: "Şərq-Qərb" ("Восток-Запад"), 2007. — С. Том 1.
  6. ^ Mkrtchyan, Shahen (1980). Historical-Architectural Monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh (PDF). Yerevan,Armenia. p. 91.
  7. ^ Stepʻan Tigrani, Melikʻ-Bakhshyan (1979). Hayotsʻ patmutʻyan aghbyuragitutʻyun (hnaguyn zhamanakneritsʻ minchʻev XVIII dari verjě). Yerevan: University of Michigan; Yerevan University Publishing House. p. 323.
  8. ^ Fernández-Jalvo, Y; King, T; Yepiskoposyan, L; Andrews, P (2016), "Introduction: Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor", Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–26, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24924-7_1, ISBN 978-3-319-24922-3, retrieved 2021-05-16
  9. ^ "Daha 23 kənd işğaldan azad edildi". report.az (in Azerbaijani). 9 November 2020.
  10. ^ Two men beheaded in videos from Nagorno-Karabakh war identified. The Guardian. 15 December 2020
  11. ^ Zwei Zivilisten in Bergkarabach enthauptet – mutmaßlich durch aserbaidschanische Soldaten. DER SPIEGEL. 15 December 2020
  12. ^ List of immovable cultural monuments of the history of the Artsakh Republic, published by the Department of Tourism, Historical Environment Protection under the Government of the Artsakh Republic.
  13. ^ a b c "Տեղեկատու ԼՂՀ վարչատարածքային միավորների սոցիալ-տնտեսական բնութագրերի". Արցախի Էլեկտրոնային Գրադարան (in Armenian). Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  14. ^ a b c Այվազյան, Հովհաննես Մնացականի; Բալայան, Զորի Հայկի (2004). Ղարաբաղյան ազատագրական պատերազմ 1988-1994: Հանրագիտարան 1 հատորով (in Armenian). Հայկական հանրագիտարան հրատարակչություն. ISBN 978-5-89700-023-4.
  15. ^ "ԱՀ Ազգային ժողով | Պաշտոնական կայք | nankr.am". www.nankr.am. Retrieved 2021-12-26.

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