Handaberd
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Khokhanaberd (, ), also known as Khanabert () and Tarkhanaberd (), is a 9th-century mountaintop fortress near the village of Vank, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. Historically a part of the Lower Khachen (Nerkin Khachen) province of the Armenian Principality of Khachen, it served as a castle and residence of several rulers of the House of Hasan-Jalalyan.
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- Instance of
- fortress
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Tartar District
- Founded by
- Hasan Jalal
- Location
- Vəngli
- Image
- Княжеский дворец Хачена7.jpg
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- inception
- 1201-00-00
- Commons category
- Khanabert Fortress
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Khokhanaberd (, ), also known as Khanabert () and Tarkhanaberd (), is a 9th-century mountaintop fortress near the village of Vank, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. Historically a part of the Lower Khachen (Nerkin Khachen) province of the Armenian Principality of Khachen, it served as a castle and residence of several rulers of the House of Hasan-Jalalyan.
== Etymology == A local folk etymology holds that Hasan Jalal I Dawla, founder of the Hasan-Jalalyan dynasty, named it upon hearing news of his son's birth (in the local Karabakh dialect of Armenian, khokha means child).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Handaberd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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