Şəlvə () is a village in the
Lachin District
Lachin District ( az, Laçın rayonu, ku, Navçeya Laçînê, script=Latn) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the districts ...
of
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...
.
History
The village was located in the
Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh
The Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh were areas of Azerbaijan, situated outside the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), which were occupied by the ethnic Armenian military forces of the breakaway Republi ...
, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the
First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s. The village subsequently became part of the
breakaway Republic of Artsakh
Artsakh, officially the Republic of Artsakh () or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (),, is a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Artsakh controls a part of the former ...
as part of its
Kashatagh Province
Kashatagh Province ( hy, Õ”Õ¡Õ·Õ¡Õ©Õ¡Õ²Õ« Õ·Ö€Õ»Õ¡Õ¶) was a province of the Republic of Artsakh. It was the largest province by area (3,376.60 km2). The population as of 2013 was 9,656. Its capital was Berdzor.
Territorial entities
Kashata ...
, where it was known as Shalua ( hy, Õ‡Õ¡Õ¬Õ¸Ö‚Õ¡). It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement
The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement is an armistice agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It was signed on 9November by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the P ...
.
Historical heritage sites
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a
grave field
A grave field is a prehistoric cemetery, typically of Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe.
Grave fields are distinguished from necropoleis by the former's lack of remaining above-ground structures, buildings, or grave markers.
Types
Grave fields can b ...
from between the 1st and 13th centuries, a
medieval
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...
bridge, a 12th/13th-century
khachkar, a tombstone from 1629, two 17th-century tombstones, five 17th-century khachkars, a 17th/18th-century
stele, and the 17th-century church of ''Poghos-Petros'' ( hy, ÕŠÕ¸Õ²Õ¸Õ½-ÕŠÕ¥Õ¿Ö€Õ¸Õ½).
References
External links
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Populated places in Lachin District
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