Martuni ( Armenian Մարտունի ) [1] / Khojavend ( Azeri Xocavənd ) [2] is a city in Nagorno-Karabakh , located on the eastern slopes of the Karabakh ridge . According to the administrative-territorial division of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , which actually controls the city, it is the administrative center of the Martuninsky district of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , according to the administrative-territorial division of Azerbaijan - the administrative center of the Khojavand region of Azerbaijan .
| City | |
| Martuni [1] / Khojavend [2] | |
|---|---|
| arm. Մարտունի [1] / azerb. Xocavənd [2] | |
| A country | NKR / Azerbaijan [3] |
| Area | Martuninsky [1] / Khojavand [2] |
| History and geography | |
| Former names | Honashen (until the 1920s) [4] Lower Karanlug [5] [6] |
| Center height | |
| Timezone | UTC + 4 |
| Population | |
| Population | ▲ 5 800 [7] people ( 2011 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +374 47 (8) |
According to the 1989 All-Union Population Census of the USSR , 6998 people lived in Martuni [8] . In 2005, there were 4878 inhabitants in the city [9] .
Content
Etymology
In the past, the village called Honashen, where "Shen" - arm. “Settlement”, and “khona”, depending on the language of the source, allows for different interpretations (“settlement, dwelling” or “reservoir, well, spring”). In 1925, it was transformed into a city and renamed Martuni, under the pseudonym of party leader A. F. Myasnikov (Myasnikyan) [4] .
In the past, the village was also called "Lower Karanlug" [5] [6] .
The Azerbaijani name of the city does not have a direct relationship to Martuni: it comes from the western suburb of the Khojavend village inhabited by Azerbaijanis during the Soviet years [10] [11] [12] .
The Karabakh War 1991-1994
During the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, during the defense of Martuni, an Armenian from the diaspora Monte Melkonyan who later became the commander of the Martuni detachment was particularly distinguished. According to some reports, residents of Martuni expressed the opinion that the regional center was renamed Monteaberd (in Armenian Մոնթէաբէրդ ), in honor of Monte Melkonyan. The project to rename was not supported by the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, but the installation of a self-made road sign with the same name was recorded [13] .
Climate
| Martuni climate | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Jan. | Feb | March | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sen | Oct. | Nov. | Dec | Year |
| Average temperature, ° C | 3.1 | 3.8 | 6.7 | 12.6 | 17.9 | 22.7 | 25.3 | 25.6 | 20.7 | 15.5 | 9 | five | 13.9 |
| Source: [2] | |||||||||||||
Photo Gallery
A sign at the entrance to the city
Local History Museum
A sign on the house in Armenian, Russian and English
Church of St. Nerses the Great, exterior
Links
- Martuni - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 According to the administrative-territorial division of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 According to the administrative-territorial division of Azerbaijan
- ↑ This locality is controlled by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic . According to the administrative-territorial division of Azerbaijan , the territory controlled by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is located within Goygol , Jebrail , Zangelan , Kelbajar , Kubatly , Lachin , Terter , Khojavend , Khojaly , Shusha and parts of the Agdam and Fizuli regions of the Azerbaijan Republic . In fact, at present, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is an unrecognized state , most of which is not controlled by Azerbaijan .
- ↑ 1 2 Pospelov EM. Geographic names of the world: Toponymic dictionary: Over 5,000 units / Ed. ed. R.Ageeva. - M .: "Russian Dictionaries", 1998. - p. 262. - 372 p. - ISBN 5-89216-029-7 .
- ↑ 1 2 Azerbaijan SSR. Administrative division on January 1, 1977. Fourth edition. B., Azerneshr, 1979. Pp. 212
- ↑ 1 2 Azerbaijan SSR. Administrative division on January 1, 1961. B., Azerneshr, 1961. Pp. 278
- Demographic collection of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic 2011 [1] p. 24-25
- ↑ Demoscope Weekly - Application. Handbook of statistical indicators. www.demoscope.ru. The appeal date is December 5, 2017.
- ↑ NKR Population Census 2005
- ↑ Hakobyan T. Kh., Melik-Bashhyan Art. T., Barseghyan O. Kh. Dictionary of place names in Armenia and adjacent territories = Հայաստանի և հարակից շրջանների տեղանունների բառարան. - Yer. : Publishing house of Yerevan University , 1988. - T. 2. - p. 780. - 992 p. - 30 000 copies
- Arsen Melik-Shakhnazarov, “Nagorno-Karabakh: facts against lies”. Chapter 12. Emergency.
- ↑ Map sheet of J-38-11 Martuni . Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the area in 1987. 1991 edition
- ↑ Nona Shahnazaryan article "People's narratives about the nation: Ethnography of the war in Karabakh"