Taghavard

Taghavard
Թաղավարդ
Tağaverd
Taghavard is located in Azerbaijan
Taghavard
Taghavard
Coordinates: 39°40′05.2″N 46°55′12.7″E / 39.668111°N 46.920194°E / 39.668111; 46.920194
Country Azerbaijan
 • DistrictKhojavend
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total1,301
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Taghavard (Armenian: Թաղավարդ) or Taghaverd (Azerbaijani: Tağaverd) is a village in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.[2]

Following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, the eastern, lower part of the village, Nerkin Taghavard (Armenian: Ներքին Թաղավարդ, also called Taghavard Kaler, Թաղավարդ Կալեր),[3][4] is controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Martuni Province, and the western, upper part of the village, Verin Taghavard (Armenian: Վերին Թաղավարդ), is controlled by Azerbaijan as part of its Khojavend District.[5]

  1. ^ Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. ^ Andrei Zubov. "Karabakh: Mir i voina". drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference RediscoveringArmenia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Նաիրա Նալբանդյան (2020-12-03). ""Անտանելի վիճակ ա, մեր գյուղը կիսվել ա". Թաղավարդ համայնքի մի մասը հայկական, մյուսը՝ ադրբեջանական կողմում է". Azatutyun.
  5. ^ Artem Mikryukov; Nvard Hovhannisyan (2 February 2021). "In Nagorno-Karabakh, a village split in two by a ceasefire struggles to get by". Reuters. Retrieved 5 February 2020.