Dəmirçilər, Khojaly Explained

Official Name:Damirchilar / Jraghatsner
Native Name:Dəmirçilər / Ջրաղացներ
Pushpin Map:Azerbaijan#Karabakh
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Azerbaijan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Khojaly
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2015
Population Total:132
Timezone:AZT
Utc Offset:+4
Coordinates:39.7131°N 46.8417°W

Damirchilar (Azerbaijani: Dəmirçilər) or Jraghatsner (Armenian: Ջրաղացներ) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2] It was under the de facto control of breakaway Republic of Artsakh until the Azerbaijani offensive in the region in 2023.[3]

History

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[4]

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the Banunts Church (Armenian: Բանունց եկեղեցի|Banunts Yekeghetsi), the 13th-century church of Surb Vanes (Armenian: Սուրբ Վանես), and the church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,) built in 1882.[1]

Demographics

The village had 117 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 132 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015). Hakob Ghahramanyan.
  2. Web site: Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война . Андрей Зубов . drugoivzgliad.com .
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20231115231542/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/28/nagorno-karabakh-separatist-government-says-dissolve-azerbaijan-armenia Nagorno-Karabakh’s breakaway government says it will dissolve itself, The Guardian, 28 Sep 2023, archieved on 15 Nov 2023
  4. Web site: Daha 23 kənd işğaldan azad edildi.
  5. Web site: The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.