Xərxan
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Kherkhan (; ) is a village located in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population until the expulsion of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. The village lost 10% of its population as a result of both Nagorno-Karabakh wars.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kherkhan
- Settlement.native_name
- Խերխան
- Settlement.official_name
- Xərxan
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Khojavend
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 140
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Խերխան
- Country
- Republic of Artsakh
- Located in
- Shusha Uezd
- Population
- 140
- Elevation
- 1050
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Село Херхан, лето 2022 г..jpg
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- native label
- Խերխան
- Commons category
- Xərxan
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Kherkhan (; ) is a village located in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population until the expulsion of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. The village lost 10% of its population as a result of both Nagorno-Karabakh wars.
== History == During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xərxan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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