Şexer
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Shekher (; ) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Shekher
- Settlement.native_name
- ՇեխերŞexer
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Šecher, Náhorní Karabach.jpg
- Settlement.image_size
- 300px
- 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
- 407
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Şexer
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Khojavend District
- Elevation
- 764
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Šecher, Náhorní Karabach.jpg
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- Şexer
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- Şexer
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Shekher (; ) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.
== History == During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Martuni 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 Martuni Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village came under the control of Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Şexer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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