Official Name: | Tsaghkashen / Damirli |
Native Name: | Ծաղկաշեն / Dəmirli |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type2: | Country |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Tartar |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 154 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 40.1788°N 46.7652°W |
Tsaghkashen (Armenian: Ծաղկաշեն) or Damirli (Azerbaijani: Dəmirli) is a village located in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population before 2023 and in 1989.[2]
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was under the control of Armenian troops by the first half of 1992, then captured by Azerbaijani troops in 4 July 1992 during Operation Goranboy. Finally it was captured by Armenian forces on 27 July 1993.
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, the Tsaghkashen branch of the Nerkin Horatagh secondary school, and a medical centre.[1]
The village had 137 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 154 inhabitants in 2015.[1]