Minkend

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Minkənd
Հակ  • Hak
Minkənd is located in Azerbaijan
Minkənd
Minkənd
Coordinates: 39°42′34″N 46°15′14″E / 39.70944°N 46.25389°E / 39.70944; 46.25389Coordinates: 39°42′34″N 46°15′14″E / 39.70944°N 46.25389°E / 39.70944; 46.25389
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictLachin
Population
 (2003)
 • Total80
Time zoneUTC+4 (UTC)

Minkend (Azerbaijani: Minkənd; Kurdish: Hêk, Armenian: Հակ, romanized: Hak) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan. The village is located on the west bank of the Hakari River and in the northern part of Lachin district, 320 km from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

History[]

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Minkend had a population of 902, of whom 506 were Armenians and 396 were Kurds.[1]

In 1905, 140 Armenian inhabitants of the village were killed and 40 wounded during the Armenian-Tatar massacres.[2]

Formerly part of Red Kurdistan and later the Kurdistan Okrug, the village was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces on May 17, 1992 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.[3][4][5]

The village subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province.

It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

References[]

  1. ^ Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи, 1897 г. т.63 Елисаветопольская губерния. Н.А.Тройницкий, С.-Петербург, 1904. стр. 31
  2. ^ Villari, Luigi. Fire and Sword in the Caucasus. London: T. F. Unwin, 1906 ISBN 0-7007-1624-6 p. 2199
  3. ^ Negotiating a black hole, published in the Guardian
  4. ^ Lachin: The Emptying Lands Institute for War & Peace Reporting
  5. ^ U.S. Department of State - 1993 UN Security Council Resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh

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