Yemishchan | |
Native Name: | Եմիշճան |
Other Name: | Yemişcan |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan#Karabakh |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Khojavend |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 178 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.8308°N 47.0108°W |
Elevation M: | 794 |
Yemishchan (Armenian: Եմիշճան; Azerbaijani: Yemişcan, also Yemishjan) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed 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 the 19th-century St. Stephen's Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Ստեփանոս եկեղեցի|Surb Stepanos Yekeghetsi).[1]
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a school, and a medical centre.[1]
The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, had 194 inhabitants in 2005,[2] and 178 inhabitants in 2015.[1]