Ballıqaya, Goranboy

Ballıqaya (Ballygaya) is a village in the Goranboy District of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Qızılhacılı.[1]

For the nearby village of the same name, see Ballıqaya (Karahoundge), Goranboy.

Ballıqaya
Ballıqaya
Coordinates: 40°34′06″N 46°52′39″E
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictGoranboy
MunicipalityQızılhacılı
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
  Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

The village was the site of the Ballıqaya massacre, where 24 Azerbaijani civilians were killed by Armenian Armed Forces in 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh war.[2]

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