Sighnag / Sghnakh Sığnaq / Սղնախ
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Coordinates: 39°43′16″N 46°47′59″E / 39.72111°N 46.79972°E / 39.72111; 46.79972
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Khojaly
Elevation	1,302 m (4,272 ft)
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	292
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Sighnag (Azerbaijani: Sığnaq) or Sghnakh (Armenian: Սղնախ) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.^[2]

History

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.^[3]

In early July 2021, satellite images released by Caucasus Heritage Watch, a watchdog group made up of researchers from Purdue and Cornell, revealed that an Armenian cemetery dating back to the eighteenth century was bulldozed in order to make way for a new road. This makes it the "second historic cemetery destroyed along the new Fuzuli-Shusha road, after Mets T’agher/Böyük Tağlar."^[4]

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին, lit. 'Holy Mother of God'), a 19th-century cemetery, and a spring monument built in 1949.^[1]

Demographics

The village had 251 inhabitants in 2005,^[5] and 292 inhabitants in 2015.^[1]

References

External links

• Sığnaq at GEOnet Names Server

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