Shahyeri / Sarinshen | |
Native Name: | Şahyeri / Սարինշեն |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Khojavend |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 15 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.5086°N 46.9833°W |
Shahyeri (Azerbaijani: Şahyeri) or Sarinshen (Armenian: Սարինշեն) 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.[2]
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.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include khachkars, tombstones, the spring monument of Verin (Armenian: Վերին,), and the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,).[3]
The village had 27 inhabitants in 2005,[4] and 15 inhabitants in 2015.[1]