Kəmərqaya

Municipality in Dashkasan, Azerbaijan

Kəmərqaya Կիրանց • Kirants
Municipality
40°32′38″N 46°04′12″E / 40.54389°N 46.07000°E / 40.54389; 46.07000
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Dashkasan
Population ^{[citation needed]}
• Total	322
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Kəmərqaya (Kamargaya; Armenian: Կիրանց, romanized: Kirants) is a village and municipality in the Dashkasan District of Azerbaijan. The village had an Armenian population before the exodus of Armenians from Azerbaijan after the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.^[1]

Toponymy

The village is also known as Kiranzh and was known as Beriyaşen and Şarukkar until 1992.^[2]

Demographics

The village has a population of 322.

References

^ Samvel Karapetian (2007). Northern Artsakh (PDF). Research on Armenian Architecture. pp. 196–203. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-03. Retrieved 2012-07-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)