Shushi Province ( hy, Շուշիի շրջան) is a
province of the
breakaway Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' part of the Republic of
Azerbaijan. The province has 7 communities of which 1 is considered urban and 6 are rural. The town of
Shushi
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, image_caption = Landmarks of Shusha, from top left:Ghazanchetsots Cathedral • Yukhari Govhar ...
(Shushi) and
Karin Tak came under control of the
Azerbaijan Army
The Azerbaijani Land Forces ( az, Azərbaycan Silahlı Qüvvələri Quru Qoşunları) are the land force component of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan has been trying to create professional, well trained ...
after the 2020
Battle of Shushi.
Sites of interest
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Shushi
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, image_caption = Landmarks of Shusha, from top left:Ghazanchetsots Cathedral • Yukhari Govhar ...
, its largest community
* The "rock" of Shushi, below which is the village of Karin Tak (Քարին Տակ; Under the Rock). The "rock" is prominent in
Armenian history as it was from there that Armenian fighters ambushed the
Azeri
Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic people living mainly in Azerbaijan (Iran), northwestern Iran and the Azerbaijan, Republi ...
military who were held in Shushi 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 ...
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Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, 1868–1887
* The Shushi Tank Memorial
* The church of
Kanach Zham
Saint John the Baptist Church (), commonly known as Kanach Zham ( hy, Կանաչ Ժամ) is an Armenian Apostolic Church, Armenian Apostolic church in Shusha (known to Armenians as ''Shushi'') in Azerbaijan, in the Political status of Nagorno-Kar ...
(Կանաչ Ժամ եկեղեցի), 1847
[''Artsakh: A Photographic Journey'' by Hrair Khatcherian, p. 12.]
Shushi tank memorial-DCP 3043.JPG, The Shushi tank memorial
Ghazanchetsots.jpg, Ghazanchetsots Cathedral
References
External links
History of Shushi
Regions of the Republic of Artsakh
Shushi (province)
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