Ərdəşəvi

Ərdəşəvi
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Coordinates: 39°46′00.8″N 46°28′58.3″E
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Lachin
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	127
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Ərdəşəvi (Ardashavi) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.

History

The village was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s. The village subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Artashavi (Armenian: Արտաշավի). It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the historical village of Malkhalap (Armenian: Մալխալափ, also Malkhalaf) with a ruined medieval bridge nearby,^[2] a stele from 1221, a 13th-century khachkar, a khachkar from 1481, a tombstone from 1575, and two 17th-century khachkars.^[1]

Demographics

The village had 88 inhabitants in 2005,^[3] and 127 inhabitants in 2015.^[1]

Gallery

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References

1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
2. Samvel Karapetyan (2001). Armenian Cultural Monuments In The Region Of Karabakh (PDF). Research on Armenian Architecture.
3. "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.

External links

• Ərdəşəvi at GEOnet Names Server