Maragha
Maragha or Shikharkh, formerly known as Leninavan, 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.- Type: Village with 100 residents
- Description: town in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan
- Also known as: “Leninavan”, “Maraga”, “Maragha, Azerbaijan”, “Shikharkh”, and “Şıxarx”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tǝrtǝr and Hǝsǝnqaya.
Tǝrtǝr
Town
Tartar is a city in and the capital of the Tartar District of Azerbaijan. Its population is approximately 18,200, as of 2008. During the Russian Empire, the city was the administrative center of the Jevanshir Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate. Tǝrtǝr is situated 4 km east of Maragha.
Hǝsǝnqaya
Village
Hasangaya or Haykajur is a village in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Hǝsǝnqaya is situated 4 km west of Maragha.
Çaylı
Village
Chayly or Aygestan is a village in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Prior to 2023, the village was on the ceasefire line between the armed forces of the breakaway state Republic of Artsakh and those of Azerbaijan. Çaylı is situated 5 km west of Maragha.
Maragha
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tartar District, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.33231° or 40° 19′ 56″ north
Longitude
46.8888° or 46° 53′ 20″ east
Population
100
Elevation
317 metres (1,040 feet)
Open location code
8HG88VJQ+WG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Maragha” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Leninavan”
- Armenian: “Լենինավան”
- Armenian: “Մարաղա”
- Azerbaijani: “Marquşevan”
- Azerbaijani: “Şıxarx”
- Belarusian: “Марага”
- Belarusian: “Шыхарх”
- Cebuano: “Şıxarx”
- Chechen: “Шихарх”
- Chinese: “希哈克”
- Chinese: “馬拉迦”
- Corsican: “Maraga”
- Dutch: “Maraga”
- Dutch: “Şıxarx”
- French: “Maragha”
- German: “Şıxarx”
- Hausa: “Maraga”
- Irish: “Shikharkh”
- Italian: “Maraga”
- Italian: “Şıxarx”
- Japanese: “シハルク”
- Japanese: “シュハルフ”
- Japanese: “マラガ (アゼルバイジャン)”
- Kalaallisut: “Maraga”
- Kikuyu: “Maraga”
- Kinyarwanda: “Maraga”
- Kongo: “Maraga”
- Malay: “Maraga, Azerbaijan”
- Malay: “Maraga”
- Malay: “Şıxarx”
- Nyanja: “Maraga”
- Persian: “ماراقا”
- Romansh: “Maraga”
- Russian: “Ленинаван”
- Russian: “Марага”
- Russian: “Шихарх”
- Russian: “Шыхарх”
- Samoan: “Maraga”
- Sardinian: “Maraga”
- Sassarese Sardinian: “Maraga”
- Swedish: “Şıxarx”
- Ukrainian: “Ленінаван”
- Ukrainian: “Шихарх”
- Uzbek: “Maraga (Ozarbayjon)”
- Uzbek: “Maraga”
- Western Armenian: “Մարաղա (գիւղ)”
- Western Armenian: “Մարաղա”
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