Yukhari Askipara Yuxarı Əskipara | |
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 The fortress at Upper Askipara | |
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  Yukhari Askipara | |
| Coordinates:41°03′58″N45°01′24″E / 41.06611°N 45.02333°E /41.06611; 45.02333 | |
| Country(de jure) | Azerbaijan |
| • District | Qazakh |
| Country(de facto) | Armenia |
| • Province | Tavush |
| • Municipality | Ijevan |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
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Yukhari Askipara (Azerbaijani:Yuxarı Əskipara,lit. 'Upper Askipara';Armenian:Վերին Ոսկեպար,romanized: Verin Voskepar,lit. 'Upper Voskepar') is a destroyed village in an exclave of theQazakh District ofAzerbaijan, currently under the control ofArmenia and surrounded by theTavush Province of Armenia. The exclave has been under control by Armenian forces since theFirst Nagorno-Karabakh War, which also includedfighting in Qazakh. Today, the village is destroyed, with only the foundations and some lower portions of the houses remaining.[1]
There are three medieval bridges, a fortress and the ruins of a church in the village.[2]
According to the 1915 publication of theCaucasian Calendar, Yukhari Askipara (Аксибара Стар.,Aksibara Star.) had a predominantly Tatar (later known asAzerbaijani) population of 278 in 1914.[3]
The village was captured by Armenians in 1990 and its Azerbaijani inhabitants (some 500 people comprising around 100 families) were expelled, becominginternally displaced persons in other villages of Azerbaijan's Qazakh district.[4] The village is now administered as part of theTavush Province of Armenia.[5]
Locally born Firudin Musayev rose from a peasant background to become a brigadier, then state farm director before becoming a deputy of the 8th convocation of theSupreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[4]
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