Pokr Masrik
40°15′29″N 45°43′21″E / 40.25806°N 45.72250°E
Pokr Masrik
Փոքր Մասրիկ Kiçik Məzrə | |
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  Pokr Masrik | |
| Coordinates: 40°15′29″N 45°43′21″E / 40.25806°N 45.72250°E | |
| Country | Armenia |
| Marz (Province) | Gegharkunik |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 744 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 ( ) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 ( ) |
Pokr Masrik (Armenian: Փոքր Մասրիկ – meaning "little Masrik"; Azerbaijani: Kiçik Məzrə, formerly, Malaya Mazra) is a town in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. The town had an Azerbaijani population prior to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It has a 12th-century church. Mets Masrik (big Masrik) is nearby.
Demographics
The population of the town consisted of 227 Azerbaijanis in 1831 rising to 1,200 Azerbaijanis in 1897 and to 1,375 by 1916.[1]
Around 2,000 Azerbaijani people lived in the village in 1987 until November 1988, when Azerbaijani inhabitants fled to Azerbaijan.[2]
References
- ^ Zaven Korkotyan (1932). Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) (in Armenian). Հրատարակություն Մելքոնյան Ֆոնդի. p. 28.
- ^ Ermənistan azərbaycanlılarının tarixi coğrafiyası. 1995. p. 290. ISBN 5-8020-0852-0.
- Pokr Masrik at GEOnet Names Server
- Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia
- Kiesling, Brady (June 2000). Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 November 2021.
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