Şada

Village in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

Municipality in Nakhchivan District, Azerbaijan

39°29′10″N 45°29′40″E / 39.48611°N 45.49444°E / 39.48611; 45.49444Country

AzerbaijanAutonomous republicNakhchivan DistrictPopulation

(2005)^{[citation needed]}

• Total164Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Şada (also, Sada, Shada, Shadakend, and Shady) is a village and the least populous municipality in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 18 km in the north-west from the district center, on the slope of the Daralayaz ridge. There is a secondary school, library, and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 164.^[1]

Qaraboya

Qaraboya (also, Garaboya and Karaboya) - the existed village on the slope of the Ov Mountain in the Shahbuz district. Its population have been resettled in the Shada and Badamlı villages in 1960.^[1]

Monuments

St. Khach or Kamu Khach Monastery was a ruinous Armenian monastery located approximately 2-2.5 km south of the village.^[2] The monastery was founded in the 11th or 12th century and was in a ruinous condition in the late Soviet period.^[2] It was razed at some point between 1997 and 2008.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. II. Baku: ANAS. p. 283. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c Khatchadourian, Lori; Smith, Adam T.; Ghulyan, Husik; Lindsay, Ian (2022). Silent Erasure: A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies: Ithaca, NY. pp. 366–367. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2022.