Official Name: | Jilan / Saralanj |
Native Name: | Cilən / Սարալանջ |
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: | 27 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.4358°N 46.9697°W |
Jilan (Azerbaijani: Cilən) or Saralanj (Armenian: Սարալանջ|) 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.
The village had 28 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 27 inhabitants in 2015.[1]