Pircahan

Pircahan (Pirjahan) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.

Pircahan
Pircahan
Coordinates: 39°43′34″N 46°26′08″E
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictLachin
Population
  Total103
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
  Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

History

The village was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.

The village subsequently became part of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Goghtanik (Armenian: Գողթանիկ).

It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

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