Official Name: | Ərikli |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan#East Zangezur |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Lachin |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 12 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.8506°N 46.405°W |
Ərikli or Arakhish (Armenian: Արախիշ) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.
The village was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s. The village subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, where it was known as Arakhish (Armenian: Արախիշ). It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include khachkars from between the 9th and 11th centuries, two cemeteries from between the 9th and 17th centuries, a 12th-century tombstone, the 12th/13th-century church of Arakhish (Armenian: Արախիշ), the church of Zorakhach (Armenian: Զորախաչ) from 1246, a tombstone from 1295, a 15th/16th-century rock-cut khachkar, a 16th/17th-century khachkar, and two 17th-century tombstones.[1]
The village had 50 inhabitants in 2005,[2] and 12 inhabitants in 2015.[1]