Tanahat ( hy, Թանահատ; az, Comardlı,

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: ''Jomardly'') is a village in the

Sisian Municipality Sisian Municipality, referred to as Sisian Community ( hy, Սիսիան Համայնք ''Sisian Hamaynk''), is an urban community and administrative subdivision of Syunik Province of Armenia, at the south of the country. Consisted of a group of se ...

of the

Syunik Province Syunik ( hy, Սյունիք, ) is the southernmost province of Armenia. It is bordered by the Vayots Dzor Province to the north, Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic exclave to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran to the south. It ...

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History

The village has an ancient Armenian monastery named the Tanahat Monastery. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Armenia's independence, its Azerbaijani inhabitants fled at the onset of the

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaij ...

in 1988, and it was later resettled by

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refugees from Azerbaijan. Prior to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Tanahat was home to 70 Azerbaijani families and had a regular bus service to Baku. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev’s grandfather was born in this village.

Demographics

Population

The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population as 76 in 2010, up from 42 at the 2001 census.

Gallery

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References

Populated places in Syunik Province {{Syunik-geo-stub