Minkend

Minkənd
Հակ
Minkənd
Հակ
Coordinates:
Country De-jure Azerbaijan
De-facto Nagorno-Karabakh
Rayon
Province
Lachin
Qashatagh
Time zone UTC (UTC+4)
 • Summer (DST) UTC (UTC+5)

Minkend (Azerbaijani: Minkənd; and HakArmenian: Հակ) is a Kurdish[1] village in Lachin district of Azerbaijan. Since May 17, 1992 the village together with Lachin district has been under control of the Armenian forces[2][3][4].

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Geography

The village is located at the west side of the Hakari River and in the north part of Lachin district, 320 km from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

History

In 1905 140 Armenian inhabitants of the village were killed and 40 wounded during the Armenian-Tatar massacres[5]

Economy

Famous people

References

  1. ^ Voice of Karabakh
  2. ^ Negotiating a black hole, published in the Guardian
  3. ^ Lachin: The Emptying Lands Institute for War & Peace Reporting
  4. ^ U.S. Department of State - 1993 UN Security Council Resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh
  5. ^ Villari, Luigi. Fire and Sword in the Caucasus. London: T. F. Unwin, 1906 ISBN 0-7007-1624-6 p. 2199