Official Name: | Kavahan / Gavahyn |
Native Name: | Կավահան / Gavahın |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type2: | Country |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Khojavend |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 75 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.7639°N 46.9147°W |
Kavahan (Armenian: Կավահան, also, Armenian: Ղավախան) or Gavahyn (Azerbaijani: Gavahın) is a village located in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a 16th-century khachkar, a 17th/18th-century cemetery, and the church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,) built in 1871.[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 Kavahan branch of the Kolkhozashen Secondary School, and a medical centre.[1]
The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, had 124 inhabitants in 2005,[2] and 75 inhabitants in 2015.[1]