Sığnaq
Place in Khojaly, Azerbaijan
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Sighnag (Azerbaijani: Sığnaq) or Sghnakh (Armenian: Սղնախ) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]
Sighnag / Sghnakh
Sığnaq / Սղնախ | |
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  Sighnag / Sghnakh  Sighnag / Sghnakh | |
| Coordinates: 39°43′16″N 46°47′59″E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| District | Khojaly |
| Elevation | 1,302 m (4,272 ft) |
| Population (2015)[1] | |
• Total | 292 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
History
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[3]
In early July 2021, satellite images released by Caucasus Heritage Watch, a watchdog group made up of researchers from Purdue and Cornell, revealed that an Armenian cemetery dating back to the eighteenth century was bulldozed in order to make way for a new road. This makes it the "second historic cemetery destroyed along the new Fuzuli-Shusha road, after Mets T’agher/Böyük Tağlar."[4]
