Mədrəsə (Madrasa; Armenian: Մատրասա, romanized: Matrasa) is a village and municipality in the Shamakhi District of Azerbaijan. This village had a generally homogeneous Armenian population in 1918 and maintained a significant Armenian presence up until the forced exodus of Armenians from Azerbaijan in 1988.[2][3] It has a population of 2,597.
Mədrəsə
Մատրասա • Matrasa | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
  Mədrəsə | |
| Coordinates: 40°36′53″N 48°33′51″E / 40.61472°N 48.56417°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| District | Shamakhi |
| Population (2008)[1] | |
• Total | 2,597 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Madrasa was home to one of the last two Armeno-Tat communities in Azerbaijan, until they were expelled in the 1990s.
It is the origin of the Madrasa grape, which is still cultivated locally and internationally for winemaking.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan[dead link] – World-Gazetteer.com
- ^ Narine Vlasyan (February 5, 2019). "Shamakhi: A Lost Dialect, a Lost Identity". evnreport.com.
- ^ Karapetian, S (1997). Armenian Lapidary Inscriptions of Boon-Aghvank. Yerevan: Publishing House of the State Academy of Sciences of Armenia “Gitut'yun”. p. 46. ISBN 5-8080-0144-7.
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