Mincivan
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Mincivan (Minjivan) is a town in the Zangilan District of Azerbaijan.
History
Mincivan was part of the Zangezur Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate in the Russian Empire.
The town was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces in 1993 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The town subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Mijnavan (Armenian: Միջնավան).
It was recaptured by Azerbaijan on 21 October 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[2][3]
Demographics
According to the Soviet census of 1933, Mincivan town of Zangilan District of Azerbaijan SSR had 322 residents (169 men, 153 women). The entire village council (the villages of Bakharly, Dellakli and Tarakeme), whose center was Minjivan, consisted solely of Azerbaijanis.[4] Mincivan had 5,506 residents in 1989,[5] 344 in 2005,[6] and 300 in 2015.[1]
Gallery
- Forested road in Mincivan
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- Armenian sign reading "Mijnavan" before its recapture by Azerbaijan
References
- ^ a b 2015 Artsakh official census
- ^ @azpresident (21 October 2020). "Rəşadətli Azərbaycan Ordusu Zəngilan rayonunun Mincivan qəsəbəsi." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Aliyev announces control seized over 22 settlements in Karabakh". TASS. 21 October 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ^ Административное деление АССР [Administrative division of the ASSR]. Baku: AzUNKHU Edition. 1933. p. 100.
- ^ "Demoscope Weekly - Application. Handbook of statistical indicators". www.demoscope.ru. 2017.
- ^ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
External links
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- Mincivan at GEOnet Names Server
- World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan[dead link] – World-Gazetteer.com
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