Voghji, Shirak
40°48′34″N 43°45′10″E / 40.80944°N 43.75278°E
Voghji Ողջի | |
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Coordinates: 40°48′34″N 43°45′10″E / 40.80944°N 43.75278°E | |
Country | Armenia |
Province | Shirak |
Municipality | Amasia |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 602 |
Time zone | UTC+4 |
Voghji (Armenian: Ողջի) is a village in the Amasia Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.[1][2][3]
In 1988-1989, Azerbaijanis of the village moved to Azerbaijan, leading to Armenians from the Ninotsminda region of Georgia, the Spitak earthquake zone, and Azerbaijan to settle in the village.[4]
Demographics
[edit]According to 1912 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, there was a mainly Karapapakh population of 930 in the village of Okhchoglu of the Kars Okrug of the Kars Oblast.[5]
The population of the village since 1886 is as follows:[6]
Year | Population |
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1886 | 551 |
1897 | 747 |
1926 | 799 |
1939 | 1,093 |
1959 | 1,032 |
1970 | 1,412 |
1979 | 1,504 |
1989 | 110 |
2001 | 602 |
2004 | 631 |
Gallery
[edit]- Village before exodus of Azerbaijanis
- Azerbaijani pupil of Okhchuoghlu school, 1984
References
[edit]- ^ USSR Report. POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL AFFAIRS.
- ^ Бакинские ведомости. «ЦИВИЛИЗОВАННЫЙ» АРАмагеддон
- ^ Felix Tsertisivadze. THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE. New York. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9741857-4-3. p. 48
- ^ "Ողջի" (PDF). shirak.mtad.am. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1912 год [Caucasian calendar for 1912] (in Russian) (67th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1912. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021.
- ^ Հայաստանի Հանրապետության բնակավայրերի բառարան [Republic of Armenia settlements dictionary] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018.
- Voghji, Shirak at GEOnet Names Server
- Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia