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Sığnaq
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Sighnag () or Sghnakh () is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in AZ, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 69 inbound references to Sığnaq, and connects out to Fərrux, Azerbaijan and Soviet Union.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Khojaly District.
Vinony links it to 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sighnag / Sghnakh
- Settlement.native_name
- Sığnaq / Սղնախ
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan#Karabakh
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Khojaly
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 292
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1302
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Sığnaq
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Khojaly District
- Elevation
- 1302
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Sighnag village of Khojaly district, July 2023.jpg
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- native label
- Sığnaq
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sighnag () or Sghnakh () is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.
== History == During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sığnaq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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