Gavahın
Sign in to saveKavahan (, also , ) or Gavahyn () is a village located in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population until the expulsion of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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- Settlement.official_name
- Kavahan / Gavahyn
- Settlement.native_name
- Կավահան / Gavahın
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Khojavend
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 75
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Gavahın
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Located in
- Martuni Province
- Population
- 44
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Significant event
- First Nagorno-Karabakh War
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- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- native label
- Gavahın
- located in/on physical feature
- Nagorno-Karabakh
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Kavahan (, also , ) or Gavahyn () is a village located in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population until the expulsion of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.
== History == During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gavahın” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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