Qoçbəyli

Qoçbəyli

Qoçbəyli

Place in Khojavend, Azerbaijan

For other places with the same name, see Aygestan (disambiguation).

Gochbeyli (Azerbaijani: Qoçbəyli) or Aygestan (Armenian: Այգեստան) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]

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History

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War the village was administrated as part of the Hadrut Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village came under the control of Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a village from between the 15th and 19th centuries, and the Holy Resurrection Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Հարություն եկեղեցի, romanized: Surb Harutyun Yekeghetsi) built in 1741.[1]

Demographics

The village had 294 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 316 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. [2]
    Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. [3]
    "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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