Geghi

Geghi (Armenian: Գեղի; Azerbaijani: Kığı) is a village in the Kajaran Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population in 1988, before the exodus of Azerbaijanis from Armenia after the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[3]

Geghi

Գեղի
Kığı
Geghi
Coordinates: 39°13′12″N 46°09′20″E
Country Armenia
ProvinceSyunik
MunicipalityKajaran
Area
 • Total68.67 km2 (26.51 sq mi)
Population
 • Total172
 • Density2.5/km2 (6.5/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+4 (AMT)
Geghi at GEOnet Names Server

Demographics

Population

The village had 570 inhabitants in 1959, 932 in 1970 and 1,115 Azerbaijani inhabitants in 1979.[3] The local Azerbaijani population fled in 1988.

The National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia (ARMSTAT) reported the community's population as 172 at the 2011 Armenian census,[2] up from 138 in 2010,[4] but down from 227 at the 2001 census.[5]

Municipal administration

Geghi was previously a community which included the villages of Geghi, Geghavank, Kard, Kitsk, Verin Geghavank and Karut, until the June 2017 administrative and territorial reforms, when the village became a part of the Kajaran Municipality.[6][7]

References
  1. "Syunik regional e-Governance System" (in Armenian). Syunik Province provincial government. Click on link entitled "Համայնքներ" (community) and search for the place by Armenian name.
  2. "The results of the 2011 Population Census of the Republic of Armenia" (PDF). Statistical Committee of Armenia.
  3. (in Armenian) T. Kh. Hakobyan, St. T. Melik-Bakhshyan, H. Kh. Barseghyan «Երևան» (Yerevan). Dictionary of Toponymy of Armenia and Adjacent Territories. vol. v. Yerevan, Armenia: Yerevan State University 1986. p.909
  4. "Marzes of Armenia and Yerevan City in Figures, 2010" (PDF). Statistical Committee of Armenia.
  5. Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia
  6. Հայաստանի 328 համայնքների միավորմամբ կձևավորվի 34 համայնք. ԱԺ-ն քննարկում է ծրագիրը
  7. Syunik Province communities
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