Şahyeri
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Shahyeri () or Sarinshen () 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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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Shahyeri / Sarinshen
- Settlement.native_name
- Şahyeri / Սարինշեն
- 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
- 15
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Şahyeri
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Khojavend District
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Село Сариншен, август 2017 г..jpg
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Shahyeri () or Sarinshen () 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. 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 “Şahyeri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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