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Sığnaq
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Sighnag () or Sghnakh () is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. 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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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sighnag / Sghnakh
- Settlement.native_name
- Sığnaq / Սղնախ
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan#Karabakh
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Khojaly
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 292
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1302
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Sığnaq
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Khojaly District
- Elevation
- 1302
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Sighnag village of Khojaly district, July 2023.jpg
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- native label
- Sığnaq
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Sighnag () or Sghnakh () is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. 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 a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sığnaq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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