Jojug Marjanly () is a village in

Jabrayil District Jabrayil District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the south-west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Khojavend, Fuzuli, Qubadli, Zangilan, and t ...

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History

In 1993, in the course of the

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, the Armenian forces pushed Azerbaijani forces out of the village after gaining control of the nearby hills. It remained under

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n control for four months during which it was completely razed.Foreign Diplomats Visited Çocuq Mərcanlı Family
''Day.az''. 15 February 2017. Having failed to maintain control of the village, the Armenians retreated to the nearby hills. Cocuq Mərcanlı turned into a no man's land and its population never returned out of fear of shelling, with the exception of one family. However, during the

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, Azerbaijani troops regained control over the strategic

Lalatapa Lalatapa (, ) is a high hill in the Jabrayil Rayon of Azerbaijan, north-west of Çocuq Mərcanlı. In 2019, an archaeological expedition led by Khagani Almammadov of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan announced the discovery of a Neo ...

hill located north-west of the village, which shifted Cocuq Mərcanlı away from the immediate frontline and allowed safe access to the village. On 7 April 2016, internally displaced persons from Cocuq Mərcanlı visited the site of the village for the first time in 23 years. In January 2017, Azerbaijan decided to invest 2 million euros into rebuilding the village. By June 2017, when the village was visited by the President of Azerbaijan

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50 houses and a school had been built, the access road was paved and gas supply re-established. Reports in September 2017 suggest that villagers had continued to return to the village since then with a further 100 houses under construction.September 2017 report on AzerNews
/ref> Up until 27 September 2020, Cocuq Mərcanlı was the only village of the Jabrayil District effectively controlled by the

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. It was also the provisional centre of the district until the recapture of

Jabrayil Jabrayil (, ) is a ghost city in Azerbaijan, nominally the administrative capital of Azerbaijan's Jabrayil District. A town with Azerbaijani majority and Armenians, Armenian plurality at various times during the Russian Empire, Russian imperial ...

on 9 October 2020.

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