Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh
Khojaly / Ivanyan
Xocalı / Իվանյան | |
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 The panorama of Khojali town (Ivanyan village) | |
  Khojaly / Ivanyan | |
| Coordinates: Template:Xb_type:city 39°54′40″N 46°47′21″E / 39.91111°N 46.78917°E | |
| Country | de jure  Azerbaijande facto  Artsakh |
| Rayon Province | Khojali Askeran |
| Elevation | 570 m (1,870 ft) |
| Population (2015) | |
• Total | 1,397[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (UTC) |
Khojaly (Template:Lang-az), also called Khojali, or Ivanyan (Template:Lang-hy) is a town in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. The village is located in the Askeran Province of the Republic of Artsakh.
Demographics
Khojaly is an Armenian village with a predominantly Armenian population.[2][3] Currently, the village has 1397 people, who are mostly Armenians.
History
During the Soviet period, Khojaly was a village in the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. As the Karabakh conflict started, the Azerbaijani government began to implement a plan to create a new district center. From 1988 to 1990 the population of Khojali increased from 2135 to 6000 residents, mostly consisting of immigrants from Soviet Central Asia (including more than 2000 Meskhetian Turks) and Armenia (about 2000). In April 1990 Azerbaijan abolished the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast and its internal divisions. Khojali was given city status and became the regional center for the newly created Khojali District composed of the former Askeran District and part of Martuni.[4][5]
Khojaly on 26 February 1992 during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The name became internationally notable after the Khojaly Massacre of February 1992, where at least 161[6] ethnic Azeri civilians were massacred by Armenian irregular forces.
In 2001 the settlement was renamed Ivanyan, after the late general of the Karabakh Defense Army, Kristapor Ivanyan.[7]
Claimed sister city
In February 2010, media reported a claim by the Azeri-Czech Society that representatives of the Azeri administration of Khojaly in exile and the Czech town of Lidice were to sign an agreement making Khojaly and Lidice sister cities and that a street in Lidice was to be named "Khojali".[8][9][10] In March 2012, reports quoted the mayor of Lidice, Veronika Kellerova, as officially stating that Lidice and Khojali had never been sister cities. She further repudiated reports that there exists a street named Khojaly in Lidice.[11]
References
- ^ Արցախի Հանրապետության մարդահաշիվ (in English)
- ^ "Карабахские депутаты: Ходжалу стал жертвой политических интриг и борьбы за власть в Азербайджане". regnum.ru.
- ^ "Ходжалу – геноцид азербайджанцев". noev-kovcheg.ru.
- ^ Доклад общества «Мемориал» (Memorial). Независимая газета, 18 June 1992
- ^ "Карабахские депутаты: Ходжалу стал жертвой политических интриг и борьбы за власть в Азербайджане – ИА REGNUM". regnum.ru.
- ^ "Human Rights Watch World Report 1993 – The Former Soviet Union". Hrw.org. Archived from the original on 18 February 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ^ "Karabakh Marks Ten Years Of 'Independence'". azatutyun.am.
- ^ "Khojali to be twinned with Czech Lidice". Trend News Agency. 2010-02-22. Archived from the original on 2010-02-24. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
- ^ "A street in Lidice, Czechia to be named after Khojaly". Azerbaijan Press Agency. 2010-02-22. Archived from the original on October 27, 2011. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
- ^ Asya Chekanova (2010-03-09). "Лидице стали побратимами Ходжалы. Армения против" [Lidice twinned with Khojaly. Armenia is against]. Český Rozhlas. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
- ^ "Mayor Veronika Kellerova: Lidice, Khojaly not sister cities, no street named Khojaly in Lidice". Panorama.am. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
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