Shekher
Place in Khojavend, Azerbaijan
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Shekher (Armenian: Շեխեր; Azerbaijani: Şexer) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.[2]
AzerbaijanShekher
Շեխեր Şexer | |
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  Shekher Location within Azerbaijan | |
| Coordinates: 39°38′47″N 46°58′45″E | |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| District | Khojavend |
| Population (2015)[1] | |
• Total | 407 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
History
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Martuni Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village came under the control of Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[3]
Historical heritage sites
Demographics
Prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, it had an Armenian majority with 408 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 407 inhabitants in 2015.[1]
Partnerships
In October 2018, the village signed a friendship declaration with the Commune of Arnouville, France.[6] In June 2019, the French administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise declared that the signing breached French law by exceeding the authority of a municipal jurisdiction and by not respecting the international commitments of France (notably Nagorno-Karabakh's lack of recognition as a state), proclaiming the declaration null and void.[7]
