Sotk
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Sotk is a town in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia
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inhabitants . It grew into a town during the region's industrialization in the 1960 and 1970s, primarily due to the exploitation of the Zod gold mines. There is now a gold mine and a light metallurgy fabrication in the outskirts of the town. The town has a ruined Armenian basilica church said to date from the 7th century, with 13th century gravestones in its walls. The town was mostly populated by ethnic Azeris until 1988, when they fled to Azerbaijan as a result of ethnic clashes . The refugees from Zod founded the village of Yeni Zod
in the Goygol rayon of Azerbaijan.
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
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History
At the end of the 19th century Zod was a village with 1100 TatarAzerbaijani people
The Azerbaijanis are a Turkic-speaking people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as in the neighbourhood states, Georgia, Russia and formerly Armenia. Commonly referred to as Azeris or Azerbaijani Turks , they also live in a wider area from the Caucasus to...
inhabitants . It grew into a town during the region's industrialization in the 1960 and 1970s, primarily due to the exploitation of the Zod gold mines. There is now a gold mine and a light metallurgy fabrication in the outskirts of the town. The town has a ruined Armenian basilica church said to date from the 7th century, with 13th century gravestones in its walls. The town was mostly populated by ethnic Azeris until 1988, when they fled to Azerbaijan as a result of ethnic clashes . The refugees from Zod founded the village of Yeni Zod
Yeni Zod
Yeni Zod is a village and municipality in the Goygol Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,153....
in the Goygol rayon of Azerbaijan.
Famous people from the town
- Prof. Dr. Ahliman AmiraslanovAhliman AmiraslanovAhliman Tapdiq oğlu Amiraslanov is an oncologist, a professor and Rector of Azerbaijan Medical University....
- Oncologist, Rector of Azerbaijan Medical UniversityAzerbaijan Medical UniversityAzerbaijan Medical University, named after Nariman Narimanov is the formal name of the public medical school located in Baku, Azerbaijan. Due to difficulties with translation, the school is sometimes called: Azerbaijan Medical University, Azerbaijan State Medical University, Azerbaijan State... - Mr.Hafiz Hajiyev - Chairman of Modern Musavat Party in Azerbaijan, Presidential candidate in 2003 and in 2008, former CEO of "Azerfish" State Concern
- Etibar HajiyevEtibar HajiyevEtibar Hajiyev is a National Hero of Azerbaijan. He was born in 1971 in the Zod village of the Basarkechar Rayon of the Armenian SSR. He died on 13 June 1992 during the Shaumyan offensive....
(1971–92) - National Hero of Azerbaijan