Maragha, Azerbaijan

Maragha / Shikharkh Մարաղա / Şıxarx
Maragha / Shikharkh
Coordinates: 40°19′48″N 46°52′48″E / 40.33000°N 46.88000°E / 40.33000; 46.88000
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Tartar
Elevation	15 m (49 ft)
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Maragha (Armenian: Մարաղա; Azerbaijani: Marağa, also Maraga) or Shikharkh (Azerbaijani: Şıxarx), formerly known as Leninavan (between 1954–1992), is a town in the Tartar 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.^[1] The town was the site of a large massacre of ethnic Armenians by Azerbaijani forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.