Tsakuri

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Tsakuri
Ծակուռի
Hünərli
View of Tsakuri
View of Tsakuri
Tsakuri is located in Azerbaijan
Tsakuri
Tsakuri
Coordinates: 39°34′11″N 46°59′01″E / 39.56972°N 46.98361°E / 39.56972; 46.98361Coordinates: 39°34′11″N 46°59′01″E / 39.56972°N 46.98361°E / 39.56972; 46.98361
Country Azerbaijan
 Republic of Artsakh (claimed)
DistrictKhojavend
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total109
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Tsakuri (Armenian: Ծակուռի) or Hunarli (Azerbaijani: Hünərli,[2] previously Zakirli[3]) 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.[4]

The village is located 13 km from the town of Hadrut and a 57 km drive over the north-south highway from the regional capital Stepanakert. Hikers reach Tsakuri in the Tuğ section of the marked Janapar road. The community is lowland with a total area of 307.4 hectares, of which 241.68 hectares are of agricultural importance and 32.9 hectares is forest land.[1] It has a specially mild micro-climate thanks to its apple, pear, mulberry and walnut trees. Deposits of Icelandic spar are to be found in the village area.

History[]

During the Soviet period, Tsakuri was a 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 de facto independent Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on October 7, 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[5][6][7]

Historical and cultural heritage[]

Holy Mother of God Church in Tsakuri (founded in the 12th century, with the current church dating from 1682)

The historical monuments of Tsakuri include the Tsaghkavank Monastery complex, of which only the Holy Mother of God Church has been preserved. Tsakuri also contains a cemetery from the 17th-19th centuries, a 19th-century water source, a 17th-century khachkar and Ptkatagh Monastery on the outskirts of Tsakuri, founded in 1670.[1]

Holy Mother of God Church[]

The Holy Mother of God Church (also known as St. Astvatsatsin Church, St. Mary's Church and Tsaghkavank Church) was founded in the 12th century and contains a khachkar from 1198, with the current church dating from 1682. The church is the only remaining structure of the Tsaghkavank Monastery complex in Tsakuri.[8][9][1]

Efforts to rehabilitate the church were initiated by a group of international benefactors, and preparation work and fundraising started in the 2010s. In July 2013, the Primate of the Diocese of Artsakh of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, gave his blessing to project and construction work started in May 2019. The second phase of the project for the renovation of the church's interior was planned to be partly funded by an international crowdfunding campaign.[citation needed] After the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev visited the Holy Mother of God Church in Tsakuri, denying the church's Armenian identity, and describing the church's inscriptions in Armenian as "fake".[10][11][9]

Demographics[]

The village had 100 inhabitants in 2005,[12] and as of 2015, the population of the Tsakuri community was 109 people in approximately 28 households. The population was mainly engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding. The village contains a municipality building, a house of culture, and a first aid station. The water supply is provided to the village through a gravity system fed from the two springs of Akn and Nerses. The village had access to electricity, TV and radio, mobile and wireless telephony and internet services.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. ^ "İşğaldan azad olunan daha iki kəndin adı qaytarılır". banker.az (in Azerbaijani). 13 November 2020.
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  5. ^ "Bu kəndlər də azad edildi". aznews.az (in Azerbaijani). 2020-10-07.
  6. ^ "Video footage of the liberated Tsakuri village of Khojavend region". Ministry of Defense of Republic of Azerbaijan.
  7. ^ "Xocavəndin işğaldan azad olunan Tsakuri kəndi". report.az. AzMOD. 2020-11-08.
  8. ^ "Aliyev Declares Armenian Inscriptions in the 17th c. Tsaghkavank Church Fake, Plans to "Restore"". Aragats Foundation. 2021-03-22.
  9. ^ a b "'What was That If Not Fascism?' Tatoyan on Aliyev's Visit to Armenian Church". Asbarez. 2021-03-19.
  10. ^ Joshua Kucera (2021-03-26). "What happened to the church?". Eurasianet.
  11. ^ "Ilham Aliyev visited Fuzuli and Khojavand districts". President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 2021-03-15.
  12. ^ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.

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