Taghavard

Taghavard (Armenian: Թաղավարդ) or Taghaverd (Azerbaijani: Tağaverd) is a village in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Martuni District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

[6] In the context of the 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes, Artsakh MP Metakse Hakobyan stated that civilians in the village had been captured by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

[1][4] In July 2021, satellite images released by Caucasus Heritage Watch, a watchdog group made up of researchers from Purdue and Cornell, revealed that Azerbaijani bulldozers had cleared the western half of the village, thereby endangering the St. Astvatsatsin Church.

As of 2015, the village had a municipal building, a house of culture, two schools, a kindergarten, three shops, and a medical centre.

19th-century Kenats Tsar (Tree of Life) embroidery from Taghavard