Chanakhchi ( hy, Չանախչի; az, Çanaqçı) or Avetaranots ( hy, Ավետարանոց) is a village in the

Khojaly District Khojaly District ( az, Xocalı rayonu) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the Karabakh Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Kalbajar, Lachin, Shusha, Agdam and Khoj ...

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, in the disputed region of

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. The village had an ethnic

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

-majority population prior to the

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, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.

History

The village is the birthplace of

Valerian Madatov Prince Valerian Grigoryevich Madatov (, , Rostom Madatyan) (1782 – September 4, 1829) was a Russian-Armenian prince and a lieutenant-general of the Russian Empire. Sarkisyan, G. ''«Մադաթով»'' (Madatov). ''Armenian Soviet Encycloped ...

(1782–1829), an Armenian

melik Мelik (also transliterated as ''Meliq'') ( ''melikʿ''; from ar, ملك ''malik'' (king)) was a hereditary Armenian nobility, Armenian noble title, in various Eastern Armenian principalities known as ''melikdom''s encompassing modern Yerevan ...

(prince) in the Principality of Varanda, and later lieutenant general of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. During the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the

Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), DQMV, hy, Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի Ինքնավար Մարզ, ԼՂԻՄ was an autonomous oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic that was created on July 7, 1923. Its cap ...

. The village was administrated by 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 Askeran Province after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. The village was captured by Azerbaijani forces on 9 November 2020, during the

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include tombs from the 2nd–1st millennia BCE, a 12th/13th-century khachkar, the monastery of ''Kusanats Anapat'' ( hy, Կուսանաց Անապատ) built in 1616, the church of ''Surb Astvatsatsin'' ( hy, Սուրբ Աստվածածին, ) built in 1651, the 17th/18th-century Chanakhchi Fortress, and a 19th-century cemetery.

Demographics

The village had 1,039 inhabitants in 2005, and 1,121 inhabitants in 2015.

Gallery

Հայկական գորգ Մեղու (19-րդ դարի վերջ, Ավետարանոց, Ասկերանի շրջան) - Armenian carpet Meghu (end of 19th century, Avetaranots, Askeran region).jpg Հայկական գորգ Թռչնաբուն (19-րդ դարի վերջ, Ավետարանոց, Ասկերանի շրջան) - Armenian carpet Trchnabun (end of 19th century, Avetaranots, Askeran region).jpg

References

External links

* Populated places in Khojaly District Nagorno-Karabakh Former Armenian inhabited settlements {{Artsakh-geo-stub