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Maragha, Azerbaijan

Field	Value
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	Aghdara
timezone	AZT
utc_offset	+4
coordinates
elevation_m	15

Maragha (; , also Maraga) or Shikharkh (), formerly known as Leninavan (between 1954–1992), is a town in the Aghdara 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. The town was the site of a large massacre of ethnic Armenians by Azerbaijani forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

History

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

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, which has been described as an act of revenge after the Khojaly Massacre.

Population

Year	Armenians	Azerbaijanis	Russians	Ukrainians	Total
1970	3,712	95.1%	109	2.8%	64
1979	3,740	93.5%	172	4.3%	67
April 1992: Seizure by Azerbaijan. Massacre and Expulsion of Armenian population.

References

Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война".
[[Thomas de Waal. De Waal, Thomas]]. ''Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War''. New York: New York University Press, 2003, p. 176.
Melkonian, Markar. (2005). "My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia". I.B.Tauris.
"Result of the Soviet census of 1970 of the Martakert district".
"Result of the Soviet census of 1979 of the Martakert district".

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