Maragha, Azerbaijan
Maragha / Shikharkh
Մարաղա / Şıxarx | |
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| Coordinates: 40°19′48″N 46°52′48″E / 40.33000°N 46.88000°E | |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| District | Aghdara |
| Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Maragha (Armenian: Մարաղա; Azerbaijani: Marağa, also Maraga) or Shikharkh (Azerbaijani: Şıxarx), formerly known as Leninavan (between 1954–1992), is a town in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The town had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989, which had the status of a village at the time. The town was the site of a large massacre of ethnic Armenians by Azerbaijani forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.