Tanahat () is a village in the

Sisian Municipality Sisian Municipality, referred to as Sisian Community ( ''Sisian Hamaynk''), is an urban community and administrative subdivision of Syunik Province of Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Arme ...

of the

Syunik Province Syunik (, ) is the southernmost province of Armenia. It is bordered by the Vayots Dzor Province to the north, Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic exclave to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran to the south. Its capital and larg ...

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History

The village has an ancient Armenian monastery named the Tanahat Monastery. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Armenia's independence, its Azerbaijani inhabitants fled at the onset of the

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians until 2023, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbai ...

in 1988, and it was later resettled by

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refugees from Azerbaijan. Prior to the

First Nagorno-Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic conflict, ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nag ...

, Tanahat was home to 70 Azerbaijani families and had a regular bus service to

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. President of Azerbaijan

Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev (born 24 December 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician who has been the fourth president of Azerbaijan since 2003. He is also the leader of the New Azerbaijan Party since 2005. The son and second child of former Aze ...

’s grandfather was born in this village.

Demographics

The

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reported its population as 76 in 2010, up from 42 at the 2001 census.

Gallery

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References

Populated places in Syunik Province {{Syunik-geo-stub