Talış, Tartar

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Talış
Talış is located in Azerbaijan
Talış
Talış
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Country Azerbaijan (de jure)
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (de facto)
Nagorno-Karabakh / Region Tartar of Azerbaijan
Population (2016)
 • Total 567[1]
Time zone UTC (UTC+4)
 • Summer (DST) UTC (UTC+5)

Talış (Armenian: Թալիշ, T'alish) is a village in the Martakert Region of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (de facto), and the Tartar Rayon of Azerbaijan (de jure). It has been under Armenian control since the 1994 ceasefire.

History

Several historical Armenian monuments are situated in Talish, including the Horeka (Glkho) monastery (founded in the 5th century) that has numerous khachkars in its walls and its vestibule, and the Surb Astvadzadzin church (from 1894).[2][3]

During the Nagorno-Karabakh war, on April 11, 1994 Karabakh forces retook Talish, securing the village of Gulistan.[4]

The village was severely damaged during the 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes. Azerbaijan's armed forces briefly took control over the village on the 2nd of April 2016 after most of its population had been evacuated. When Talish was retaken by Armenian forces, it was reported that an elderly Armenian couple from the village had been found shot in their home and their corpses had been mutilated. According to these reports, Azerbaijani soldiers had also killed a second elderly woman in Talish.[5][6][7]

References

  1. Population of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2005)
  2. History
  3. Glkho Monastery, Talish, NKR
  4. Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Documents, Data, and Analysis, By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paige Sullivan, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), 1997, p. 612
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