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
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,De Waal, Thomas. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. New York: New York University Press, 2003, p. 176. which has been described as an act of revenge after the Khojaly Massacre.
Population +YearArmeniansAzerbaijanisRussiansUkrainiansTotal19703,71295.1%1092.8%641.6%70.2%3,90519793,74093.5%1724.3%671.7%70.2%3,998April 1992: Seizure by Azerbaijan. Massacre and Expulsion of Armenian population.
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