Official Name: | Tsaghkashat / Gyshlag |
Native Name: | Ծաղկաշատ / Qışlaq |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type2: | Country |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Khojaly |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 172 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.9739°N 46.7169°W |
Elevation M: | 803 |
Tsaghkashat (Armenian: Ծաղկաշատ,) or Gyshlag (Armenian: Ղշլաղ|Ghshlagh; Azerbaijani: Qışlaq) is a village located in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The village is also known as Keshish Kand and Kishlagkend.
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include tombs from the 2nd–1st millennia BCE and the Early Middle Ages, the 12th/13th-century village of Vaka (Armenian: Վաքա), a 12th/13th-century khachkar, the nearby medieval village of Shinategh (Armenian: Շինատեղ), a chapel from the Middle Ages 1 km to the south, the 18th-century religious site of Gharabek (Armenian: Ղարաբեկ) 2 km to the south, an 18th-century cemetery, the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,), and the Nikol Duman House Museum displaying 19th/20th-century life in the village.[1] [2]
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a secondary school and a medical centre.[1]
The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, had 200 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 172 inhabitants in 2015.[1]