Zardanashen | |
Native Name: | Armenian: Զարդանաշեն |
Official Name: | Zərdanaşen |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan#Karabakh |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Khojavend |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 101 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.6675°N 46.8806°W |
Zardanashen (Armenian: Զարդանաշեն; Azerbaijani: Zərdanaşen) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Martuni Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 18th/19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,).[1]
The village had 95 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 101 inhabitants in 2015.[1]