Çayqovuşan, Kalbajar
Çayqovuşan (Chaygovushan) is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan.[1] Çayqovuşan was one of two villages of Kalbajar forming an enclave inside of the Mardakert District of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR.[2] The village was one of the locations of the Agdaban massacre.
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Coordinates: 40°11′48.2″N 46°20′30.1″E | |
Country | Azerbaijan (de jure) Artsakh (de facto) |
District | Kalbajar (de jure) |
Province | Martakert (de facto) |
Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
Agdaban massacre
On 8 April 1992, Armenian forces attacked Agdaban and Chaygovushan villages. During the attack, over 30 people were killed and over 100 were tortured.[3]
References
- Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi (2019). "İnzibati ərazi bölgüsü təsnifatı" (PDF) (in Azerbaijani). stat.gov.az. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-16. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- Dağlıq Qarabağ Muxtar Vilayəti əraziləri, published on 22 October 2020, retrieved on 5 February 2021
- "Kəlbəcər - dağların əhatəsindəki zəngin rayon". bbc.com. BBC Azerbaijani service. 25 November 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
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