Manashid or Mənəşli (; ) is a village and municipality in the

Goranboy District Goranboy District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country in the Ganja-Dashkasan Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Kalbajar, Tartar, Yevlakh, Samukh, and Goygol. Its capital ...

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. It lies south of Todan village. Today the village has a population of 298, and the municipality consists of two villages: Mənəşli and Erkeç. The village had an Armenian majority 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 ...

and

Operation Ring Operation Ring (; , ), known in Azerbaijan as Operation Chaykand () was the codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by the Soviet Army, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union), Ministry of Internal Af ...

History

The village was founded as Manashid (or Monashid) by Swiss-German settlers and was once renowned for its cheese. As part of the Shahumyan district of

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, it was an

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-majority village. During the

, the area around Manashid was at the heart of the fighting during

in the spring of 1991. In September 1991 the ''Chicago Tribune'' reported that the residents had lived "without electricity, gas and supplies for months" and that school had been cancelled as "residents fear putting all the children in one place that could be shelled".Storer H. Rowley's report for Chicago Tribune, 21/9/1991
/ref> During Operation Ring, Manashid was emptied of its ethnic Armenian population, and the village was essentially destroyed including the Armenian church of Surb Hovhannes. Some years later it was renamed Mənəşli (Menashli) and settled by

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References

External links

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