Hilis / Garakotuk | |
Native Name: | Հիլիս / Qarakötük |
Official Name: | Qarakötük |
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: | 180 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.9547°N 46.6975°W |
Elevation M: | 909 |
Hilis (Armenian: Հիլիս) or Garakotuk (Azerbaijani: Qarakötük, formerly Azerbaijani: İlis) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. Prior to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive, it was de facto controlled by the Republic of Artsakh as a village in its Askeran Province. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population before the offensive and in 1989.[2]
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Hilis was a part of the Republic of Artsakh until its dissolution on 2024.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a village and cemetery from between the 16th and 18th centuries, St. John's Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցի|Surb Hovhannes Yekeghetsi) built in 1860, and a 19th-century spring monument.[1]
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, the Hilis branch of the Khndzristan Secondary School, and a medical centre.[1]
The village had 172 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 180 inhabitants in 2015.[1]