Çiraquz

Chiraguz (Azerbaijani: Çiraquz) or Jrakus[a] (Armenian: Ջրակուս) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The village had an Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.

[2] During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Hadrut Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh.

[3] Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a 12th/13th-century khachkar and spring monument, a cemetery from between the 16th and 19th centuries, St. Stephen's Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Ստեփանոս եկեղեցի, romanized: Surb Stepanos Yekeghetsi) built in 1698, and the monastery of Kavakavank (Armenian: Կավաքավանք) built in 1742.