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Şıx Dursun
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Skhtorashen (, also Şıxtoraşen, Skhtorasher, and Suktorashen) or Shykh Dursun () 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.
Weather now
cached 1751h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Şıx Dursun
- Region
- Khojavend
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Skhtorashen / Shykh Dursun
- Settlement.native_name
- Սխտորաշեն / Şıx Dursun
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Village of Shikh Dursun of Khojavand district.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A sign towards Tnjri, a 2000-year old plane-tree near Skhtorashen
- Settlement.image_size
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Khojavend
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 19
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Şıx Dursun
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Khojavend District
- Population
- 19
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Body of water
- Kondalanchay
- Image
- Village of Shikh Dursun of Khojavand district.jpg
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- Commons category
- Şıx Dursun
- native label
- Şıx Dursun
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Encyclopedic overview
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Skhtorashen (, also Şıxtoraşen, Skhtorasher, and Suktorashen) or Shykh Dursun () 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.
Near the village is a 2042 years old (as of 2022) giant Oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis) named Tnjri, with a circumference of 27 m and height of 54 m.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Şıx Dursun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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