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Also known as Gochbeyli, Aygestan, Gochbek

Gochbeyli () or Aygestan () is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.

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Place details

Locality
Qoçbəyli
Region
Khojavend
Country
Azərbaycan
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Gochbeyli / Aygestan
Settlement.native_name
Qoçbəyli / Այգեստան
Settlement.pushpin_map
Azerbaijan
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
District
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Khojavend
Settlement.population_as_of
2015
Settlement.population_total
316
Settlement.timezone
AZT
Settlement.utc_offset
+4

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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Historical heritage sites
  • Demographics
  • References
  • External links

Gochbeyli () or Aygestan () is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.

== History == During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War the village was administrated as part of the Hadrut Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village came under the control of Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qoçbəyli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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