Hilis / Garakotuk
Հիլիս / Qarakötük | |
|---|---|
| Qarakötük | |
  Hilis / Garakotuk  Hilis / Garakotuk | |
| Coordinates: 39°57′17″N 46°41′51″E / 39.95472°N 46.69750°E | |
| Country | 
Azerbaijan |
| • District | Khojaly |
| Elevation | 909 m (2,982 ft) |
| Population (2015)
[1] | |
| • Total | 180 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 ( AZT) |
Hilis ( Armenian: Հիլիս) or Garakotuk ( Azerbaijani: Qarakötük, formerly İlis) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. Prior to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive, it was de facto controlled by the Republic of Artsakh as a village in its Askeran Province. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population before the offensive and in 1989. [2]
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Hilis was a part of the Republic of Artsakh until its dissolution on 2024.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a village and cemetery from between the 16th and 18th centuries, St. John's Church ( Armenian: Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցի, romanized: Surb Hovhannes Yekeghetsi) built in 1860, and a 19th-century spring monument. [1]
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, the Hilis branch of the Khndzristan Secondary School, and a medical centre. [1]
The village had 172 inhabitants in 2005, [3] and 180 inhabitants in 2015. [1]
- ^ a b c d Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
- ^ Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
- ^ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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