Zangilan

Zangilan[lower-alpha 1] (Azerbaijani: Zəngilan; (listen)) is a town and the administrative centre of the Zangilan District of Azerbaijan.

For the nearby village formerly with this name, see İçəri.
"Zangelan" redirects here. For places in Iran, see Zangelan, Iran.
Zangilan

Zəngilan
A street in Zangilan
Zangilan
Coordinates: 39°03′56″N 46°41′49″E
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictZangilan
Population
 (2015)
 • Total500[1]
Time zoneUTC+4 (UTC)

History
Zangilan on a Soviet topographic map (1978)

Being part of Azerbaijan SSR during the Soviet period, the village was known as Pirchivan until 1957. According to the data of 1933, the population of the village was 574, of which 98.7% were Azerbaijanis.[2] In 31 August, 1957, the village was renamed to Zangilan.[3] It was given the status of a town in 1967. According to the 1979 Soviet census, 5,012 people lived in the town, of which 96.1% were Azerbaijanis and 3.6% were Russians or Ukrainians.[4] Population rose to 6,968 in 1989.[5]

The village became part of the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces on 29 October 1993 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.

The town subsequently was declared part of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Kovsakan (Armenian: Կովսական). In 2005 the population of the town was less than 400. Following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, a growing number of Armenian refugees from Syria had settled in the town, many of them farmers.[6][7][8]

It was recaptured by Azerbaijan on 20 October 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[9]

  • Okhchu River in Zangilan
  • Ruins of destroyed mosque in Zangilan
  • Khoda Afarin Reservoir located near Zangilan
  • Okhchu River in Zangilan
  • Zangilan's nature
  • Old Armenian Khachkar in Zangilan
  • New Khachkar in Zangilan

References
  1. Also anglicized as Zangelan
  1. http://stat-nkr.am/files/publications/2015/LXH_tverov_2015.pdf
  2. Административное деление АССР [Administrative divisions of the ASSR] (in Russian). p. 101.
  3. Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia. 4. 1980. p. 317.
  4. "ЗАНГЕЛАНСКИЙ РАЙОН (1979 г.)". ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru (in Russian).
  5. "1989 All-Union Population Census". demoscope.ru (in Russian).
  6. "Armenia: Syrian Refugees Resettling in Occupied Azerbaijani Territory". EurasiaNet. 28 January 2013.
  7. "Syrian-Armenians in NKR benefit from AGBU agricultural program". Archived from the original on 2018-06-16. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  8. "Armenia: refugees in the military". Deutsche Welle.
  9. "President Ilham Aliyev: Zangilan city and 6 villages of the district, 18 villages of Fuzuli, Jabrayil, and Khojavand districts liberated". mod.gov.az. 20 October 2020.
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