Goghtanik

Goghtanik
Goghtanik ; Գողթանիկ; Qabaxlı
	Goghtanik
	Coordinates: 39°52′02″N 45°28′19″E
Country	Armenia
Province	Vayots Dzor
Municipality	Yeghegis
Population (2011[1])
• Total	190
Time zone	UTC+4 (AMT)

Goghtanik (Armenian: Գողթանիկ; Azerbaijani: Qabaxlı) is a village in the Yeghegis Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population in 1988, before the exodus of Azerbaijanis from Armenia after the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Demographics

According to the "Caucasian Calendar" of 1915, 614 people lived in the village, with all of them being ethnic Azerbaijanis.[2] Population rose to 763 by 1916, but reduced to 330 by 1931.[3]

Gallery

View of Goghtanik and the neighboring Hermon village

References

2011 population census of the Republic of Armenia
"Caucasian Calendar. Tiflis 1912" (in Russian). p. 118.
Zaven Korkotyan (1932). Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) (in Armenian). Հրատարակություն Մելքոնյան Ֆոնդի. p. 92, 93.

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[2011census-1] 2011 population census of the Republic of Armenia

[2] "Caucasian Calendar. Tiflis 1912" (in Russian). p. 118.

[3] Zaven Korkotyan (1932). Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) (in Armenian). Հրատարակություն Մելքոնյան Ֆոնդի. p. 92, 93.