Talış, Tartar

Talış (listen , Talysh; Armenian: Թալիշ, romanized: Talish) is a village in the Tartar District in Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[1]

Talış

Թալիշ  • Talish
Village
The Holy Savior Church in the village, built in 1894.
Talış
Coordinates: 40°22′53″N 46°44′27″E
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictTartar
Population
 (2015)
 • Total581
Time zoneUTC+4 (UTC)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (UTC)

History

The village was part of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, which existed from 7 July 7 1923 until 26 November 1991. Armenian forces took control of the village on 11 April 1994,[2] and was controlled by the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh from 11 April 1994 until 3 October 2020, when it was recaptured by Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[3][4][5]

The village was severely damaged during the 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes. Azerbaijan's armed forces temporarily took control of the village on 2 April 2016 after most of its population had been evacuated.[6]

Following the 2016 clashes, Azerbaijan claimed to have regained control over all the heights around the village.[7] However, Armenia claimed that Azerbaijan had regained control over some military posts, but did not succeed in occupying all the heights around the village.[8][9] The population of the village, which numbered 567 persons in 2005 according to Armenian sources[10] fled, and the village turn into a ghost town.[11]

  • Horekavank Monastery, a 13th century monastic complex near the village.

References
  1. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  2. Brzezinski, Zbigniew; Brzezinski, Zbigniew K.; Sullivan, Paige (October 23, 1997). "Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Documents, Data, and Analysis". M.E. Sharpe – via Google Books.
  3. "Azerbaijan liberates 7 more villages amid clashes". Anadolu Agency.
  4. "Hadrut and Talish under full control of Armenian forces". Public Radio of Armenia. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  5. "Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry releases footages of liberated from occupation Talish village". Azertag.
  6. "Azerbaijani Soldiers Execute Elderly Armenian Couple in Artsakh; Then Cut Off Their Ears". HETQ.am. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  8. "Azerbaijan's Incremental Increase On The Nagorno Karabagh Frontline". bellingcat. April 12, 2016.
  9. "Artsrun Hovhannisyan: Armenian troops liberate new positions and frontiers in Karabakh". armenpress.am.
  10. Population of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2005)
  11. Религиозная свобода по-американски: Россия и Китай бросают вызов США. Regnum. 22 May 2016.
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