Şınıx (also, Shinykh and Shynykh) is a village and municipality in the

Gadabay Rayon Gadabay District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the Gazakh-Tovuz Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Dashkasan, Shamkir, Tovuz. Its administrative center i ...

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

. It has a population of 917. The municipality consists of the villages of Şınıx and Kollu.

History

During 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 ...

, the Gadabey region was divided into two zones, of which Shinikh Zone was the more westerly, initially cut off from the Gadabay Zone due to the militarised Armenian enclave of

Artsvashen Artsvashen () or Bashkend (; ) is a ''de jure'' Armenian village in the Chambarak Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It is a exclave of Armenia, and is surrounded by the territory of Azerbaijan, which has '' de facto'' occupi ...

which straddled the route. Armenians referred to the zone as "Little Karabakh" and on 31 January 1991, Armenian militants killed six Azerbaijanis on the road between Artsvashen and Shinikh. On 5 August 1992, Armenian military units attacked the zone with around a thousand troops, 4 tanks, 14 armored vehicles and other equipment, resulting in the temporary capture of Mutudərə and

Qasımağalı Qasımağalı (also Gasymaghaly) is a village in the Gadabay District of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of İsalı, Isaly. The main occupation of the population is agriculture-farming, livestock and animal husbandry. The ...

hamlets, but the zone was recaptured rapidly by a regiment led by celebrated local colonel Cahangir Rüstəmov (1939-1994). Şınıx itself suffered no civilian casualties.

References

* Populated places in Gadabay District {{Gadabay-geo-stub