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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.

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Place details

Locality
Gavahın
Region
Khojavend
Country
Azərbaycan
Population
0

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Key facts

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
Population
44
Time zone
UTC+04:00
Show 3 more facts
described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
native label
Gavahın
located in/on physical feature
Nagorno-Karabakh
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
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  • History
  • Historical heritage sites
  • Economy and culture
  • Demographics
  • References
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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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