| Official Name: | Maragha / Shikharkh |
| Native Name: | Մարաղա / Şıxarx |
| Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Azerbaijan |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Tartar |
| Timezone: | AZT |
| Utc Offset: | +4 |
| Coordinates: | 40.33°N 46.88°W |
| Elevation M: | 15 |
Maragha (Armenian: Մարաղա; Azerbaijani: Marağa, also Maraga) or Shikharkh (Azerbaijani: Şıxarx), formerly known as Leninavan (between 1954–1992), is a town in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The town had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989, which had the status of a village at the time.[1] The town was the site of a large massacre of ethnic Armenians by Azerbaijani forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
See main article: Maraga massacre. On 10 April 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village, known as Leninavan by then, was the scene of a massacre of ethnic Armenians by Azerbaijani forces,[2] which has been described as an act of revenge after the Khojaly Massacre.[3]
| Azerbaijanis | Russians | Ukrainians | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970[4] | 3,712 | 95.1% | 109 | 2.8% | 64 | 1.6% | 7 | 0.2% | 3,905 | |
| 1979[5] | 3,740 | 93.5% | 172 | 4.3% | 67 | 1.7% | 7 | 0.2% | 3,998 | |
| April 1992: Seizure by Azerbaijan. Massacre and Expulsion of Armenian population. | ||||||||||