Vəng () is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. The

Dadivank Dadivank ( hy, Դադիվանք) or Khutavank ( hy, Խութավանք, translation=monastery on the hillЖеан-Паул Лабурдетьте, Доминикуе Аузиас, Армения, Petit Futé, 2007 – p. 203) is an Armenian Ap ...

monastery is located in the village.

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 The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, referred to in Armenia as the Artsakh Liberation War ( hy, Արցախյան ազատամարտ, Artsakhyan azatamart) was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in th ...

in the early 1990s. The village subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its

Shahumyan Province Shahumyan Province ( hy, Շահումյան, Shahumyan, also spelled ''Shaumyan'' and ''Shahumian'') is a claimed province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The capital of the province was K ...

, referred to as Dadivank ( hy, Դադիվանք). 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 Pre ...

. After the withdrawal of Armenian forces from the region, the Dadivank monastery in the village was placed under the protection of Russian peacekeeping forces.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the monastery of

() from between the 4th and 13th centuries,

khachkar A ''khachkar'', also known as a ''khatchkar'' or Armenian cross-stone ( hy, խաչքար, , խաչ xačʿ "cross" + քար kʿar "stone") is a carved, memorial stele bearing a cross, and often with additional motifs such as rosettes, in ...

s from between the 11th and 13th centuries, a winepress, chapel and

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

from the 13th century, and the 14th-century monument of St. Dadi ( hy, Սուրբ Դադի, Surb Dadi).

Demographics

The village had 94 inhabitants in 2005, and 136 inhabitants in 2015.

Gallery

Dadivank mountains.jpg, Mountains Arzu-Hatun, Dadivank.JPG, Dadivank monastery Waterfall in Dadivank.JPG, Waterfall Dadivanq, Abandoned factory - panoramio.jpg, Abandoned factory Russian peacekeepers checkpoint, Vəng (Vank, Dadivank) village, Kəlbəcər (Kelbadzhar) district, Karabakh, Azerbaijan.jpg, Checkpoint of Russian peacekeepers

References

External links

* Populated places in Kalbajar District {{Kalbajar-geo-stub