Məmməddərə

Mammaddara / Mariamadzor Məmməddərə / Մարիամաձոր
Church of St. Minas from 1601 near the village
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Coordinates: 39°34′21″N 47°00′07″E / 39.57250°N 47.00194°E / 39.57250; 47.00194Coordinates: 39°34′21″N 47°00′07″E / 39.57250°N 47.00194°E / 39.57250; 47.00194
Country	Azerbaijan  Republic of Artsakh (claimed)
District	Khojavend
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	245
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Məmməddərə (Mammaddara) or Mariamadzor (Armenian: Մարիամաձոր) 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 a part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

The village was captured by Armenian forces on 2 October 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and was made part of Hadrut Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The village was recaptured by Azerbaijan on 15 October 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Gallery[]

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  Fortress near the village

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cultural heritage monuments in Mariamadzor, Nagorno-Karabakh.

• Məmməddərə at GEOnet Names Server

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