Madagiz ( hy, Մատաղիս, Mataghis) or Sugovushan (, ), is a village in the Tartar District 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 ...

, in the disputed region of

Nagorno-Karabakh Nagorno-Karabakh ( ) is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, within the mountainous range of Karabakh, lying between Lower Karabakh and Syunik, and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains. The region is m ...

. 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

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding territories. It was a major escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, involving Azerbai ...

. Madagiz was part of the

Martakert Province Martakert Province ( hy, Մարտակերտ) is a province of the Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The population is mainly Armenian. The province has 43 communities of which one is considered urban and 42 a ...

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 ...

between 10 April 1994 and 3 October 2020.

History

In 1943, 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, Madagiz was given the status of an urban-type settlement within the Mardakert 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 ...

. In 1949, Madagiz was home to an industrial complex, including a furniture factory and a lime production workshop. In 1953, a secondary school was opened. The Madagiz hydroelectric power station was built nearby on the banks of the Tartar River. During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Azerbaijani forces launched an offensive into the Mardakert District in the summer of 1992, capturing most of the district. However, as the result of a counter-offensive, by the end of June 1993, Armenian forces managed to take control of almost the entire district. After the war, the village was administrated as part of the

of the

. In April 2016, during the

Four-Day War The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also known as the Four-Day War,, IPA: ʰɑroɾjɑ pɑtɛɾɑzm az, Dördgünlük müharibə April War,; or April clashes, began along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on 1 April 2016 with the Artsakh ...

, the village found itself in the area of direct hostilities. The village was captured by

on 3 October 2020, during the

, with the Azerbaijani government renaming the village to ''Suqovuşan''.

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

Yeghishe Arakyal Monastery Yeghishe Arakyal Monastery ( hy, Եղիշե առաքյալի վանք, Yeghishe Arakyali Vank) or Monastery of Yeghishe the Apostle ( az, Müqəddəs Yelisey monastırı) is an Armenian Apostolic Church in Nagorno-Karabakh, located close to the vi ...

from between the 13th and 18th centuries with an adjacent chapel-mausoleum built in 1286 dedicated to

Vachagan III Vachagan III the Pious () or Vachagan II (according to some authors) was the last Arsacid king of Caucasian Albania, ruling approximately from 485 to 523. Background His lineage is uncertain. Murtazali Gadjiev considers him a son (or nephew) of ...

( hy, Վաչագան Բարեպաշտի մատուռ-դամբարան, Vachagan Barepashti Matur-Dambaran), a two-storey building from 1552, the St. Yeghishe Church ( hy, Սուրբ Եղիշե եկեղեցի, Surb Yeghishe Yekeghetsi) from 1892-1898, and an 18th/19th-century cemetery.

Geography

The village is located 30 kilometers northwest of the left bank of the river Tartar. To the west of the village lies a reservoir, which was created to supply water to the Tartar, Goranboy, and

Yevlakh Yevlakh ( az, Yevlax, ) is a city in Azerbaijan, 265 km west of capital Baku. It is surrounded by, but administratively separate from, the Yevlakh District. Etymology The settlement is mentioned by the 13th century Armenian historian St ...

Districts of Azerbaijan.

Economy and culture

In 2015, the population was mainly engaged in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

and animal husbandry, and the village had a municipal building, a secondary school, a kindergarten, and a medical centre.

Sugovushan-1 and -2

The reconstructed hydroelectrical power plants Sugovushan-1 and Sugovushan-2 have the total capacity of 7.8 MW.

Demographics

In 1970, 271 people (236 Armenians, 30 Azerbaijanis, 44 Russians and nine Ukrainians) lived in the village. Madagiz also had an Armenian majority-population in 1989. The village had 404 inhabitants in 2005, and 665 inhabitants in 2015. According to the State Committee for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons of Azerbaijan, as of 2020, 66 internally displaced persons from Madagiz were living in Azerbaijan.Азербайджан раскрыл численность населения освобожденных от оккупации населенных пунктов
Minval. 12 октября 2020.

Gallery

Madaghis131.jpg, Church of St. Yeghishe in the northwestern part of the village Yeghishe Arakyal Monastery - Եղիշե առաքյալի վանք 17.JPG, Armenian khachkars in the wall in the monastery of St. Yeghishe Yeghishe Arakyal Monastery - Եղիշե առաքյալի վանք 04.JPG, Countryard of the monastery of St. Yeghishe

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Madagiz Populated places in Tartar District Nagorno-Karabakh