Yukhari Askipara

Yuxarı Əskipara

Վերին Ոսկեպար (*Verin Voskepar*)
Yuxarı Əskipara Վերին Ոսկեպար (Verin Voskepar)
	Yuxarı Əskipara
	Coordinates: 41°03′58″N 45°01′24″E / 41.06611°N 45.02333°E
Country	Azerbaijan (Occupied by Armenia)
Rayon	Qazakh
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

41°03′58″N 45°01′24″E / 41.06611°N 45.02333°E / 41.06611; 45.02333

Yukhari Askipara (also Okari-Eskipara, Armenian: Վերին Ոսկեպար Verin Voskepar – all meaning "Upper Askipara") is a destroyed village within the Tavush Marz of Armenia. It is an exclave of the Qazakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. The exclave is surrounded by Armenia and has been occupied by Armenian forces since the Nagorno-Karabakh War which also included fighting in Qazakh. Today, the village is destroyed with only the foundations and some lower portions of the houses remaining.^[1] A cemetery is intact, as is a children's playground used by the residents of neighboring Voskepar. The Armenian army^{[citation needed]} expelled its Azerbaijani population after it occupied the territory, which Armenia administers as part of its Tavush Province.

References

^ Kiesling, Brady; Raffi Kojian (2001). Rediscovering Armenia: an archaeological/touristic gazetteer and map set for the historical monuments of Armenia. Tigran Mets. p. 69. ISBN 9993052280.

Yukhari Askipara at GEOnet Names Server

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[1] Kiesling, Brady; Raffi Kojian (2001). Rediscovering Armenia: an archaeological/touristic gazetteer and map set for the historical monuments of Armenia. Tigran Mets. p. 69. ISBN 9993052280.

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