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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = ChildiranChldran / ChldranChildiran
|native_name = ÇıldıranՉլդրան / ՉլդրանÇıldıran
|image_skyline = Sunset from Chlrdan village, Artsakh.jpg
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|pushpin_map = Azerbaijan#East Zangezur
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Azerbaijan}} <small>([[de jure]])</small><br>{{flag|Artsakh}} <small>([[de facto]])</small>
|subdivision_type1 = {{*}} [[Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan|District]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Kalbajar District|Kalbajar]] <small>([[de jure]])</small>
|subdivision_type2 = [[Administrative divisions of the Republic of Artsakh|Province]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Martakert Province|Martakert]] <small>([[de facto]])</small>
|leader_title =
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|population_total = 528
|population_density_km2 =
|timezone = [[ArmeniaAzerbaijan Time|AMTAZT]]
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'''Chldran''' ({{lang-hy|Չլդրան}}) or '''Childiran''' ({{lang-az|Çıldıran}}) is a village in the [[Kalbajar District]] of [[Azerbaijan]], in the region of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]]. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway [[Republic of Artsakh]]. The village had an ethnic [[Armenians|Armenian]]-majority population<ref>{{cite web |url=https://drugoivzgliad.com/karabach-mir-i-voina-a-zubov/ |title=Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война |author=Андрей Зубов |date= |website=drugoivzgliad.com |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref> until the [[Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians|exodus]] of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh following the [[2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sauer |first=Pjotr |date=2 October 2023 |title=‘It’s a ghost town’: UN arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh to find ethnic Armenians have fled |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/02/nagorno-karabakh-ghost-town-un-ethnic-armenians-azerbaijan |access-date=9 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
'''Childrina''' ''(''[[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]]'': {{transl|az|Çıldıran}}'') or '''Chldran''' ({{lang-hy|Չլդրան}}) is a village ''[[de facto]]'' in the [[Martakert Province]] of the self-proclaimed [[Republic of Artsakh]], ''[[de jure]]'' in the [[Kalbajar District]] of [[Azerbaijan]].
 
The village is made up of six neighborhoods: Vrtskaler, Kyurkoreg, Perin Gomer, Khor Dzor, Pokr Chldran and Ghalunts Tagh.<ref name="melkumyan" />
 
== Etymology ==
TheAccording to Arsène Saparov, the name of the village is of Persian origin.<ref name="saparov2017">{{cite journal|author=Arsène Saparov|date=2017-09-01|title=Contested spaces: the use of place-names and symbolic landscape in the politics of identity and legitimacy in Azerbaijan|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02634937.2017.1350139|journal=Central Asian Survey|volume=36|issue=4|pages=534-554|doi=10.1080/02634937.2017.1350139}}</ref> According to Sergey Melkumyan, the name originated from the name of the ethnically Armenian Chali brothers, due to their patriotism.<ref name="melkumyan">{{cite book |last1=Melkumyan |first1=Sergey |title=Leṛnayin Gharabagh |publisher=Luys |year=1990 |isbn=9785545005222 |location=Erevan |pages=303 |language=hy |trans-title=''Mountainous Karabakh''}}</ref>
 
== History ==
The modern village of Chldran was founded in 1905, by settlers from [[Arajadzor, Nagorno-Karabakh|Arajadzor]].<ref name="melkumyan" /> During the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] period, the village was a part of the [[Mardakert District (NKAO)|Mardakert District]] of the [[Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast]].
 
== Historical heritage sites ==
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 16th/17th-century church of Karmir Yeghtsi Church 300 m to the north, the partially ruined Nahatak Church 2.2 km to the northeast, with an adjacent cemetery with khachkars[[khachkar]]s, and the Tatver religious site of Tatver 3.5 km to the northeast.<ref name="RediscoveringArmenia">{{cite book|last1=Kiesling|first1=Brady|first2=Raffi|last2=Kojian|year=2019|title=Rediscovering Armenia: An in-depth inventory of villages and monuments in Armenia and Artsakh|edition=3rd|publisher=Armeniapedia Publishing}}</ref>
 
== Economy and culture ==
The population is mainly engaged in [[agriculture]] and [[animal husbandry]]. As of 2015, the village has a municipalitymunicipal building, a secondary school, nine shops, and a medical centre.<ref name="2015statistics"/> The village school named after Tigran Izmirlian was destroyed in the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]. It was rebuilt in 2002, and a renovation and expansion project, jointly sponsored by the [[Republic of Artsakh|Artsakh]] government, [[Armenia Fund]] and the Izmirlian Foundation, commenced in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Izmirlian Foundation|url=http://am.izmirlianfoundation.am/ongoing-projects/7/%D4%B4%D5%BA%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%81-%D4%B1%D6%80%D6%81%D5%A1%D5%AD%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4.aspx|access-date=2021-12-09|website=am.izmirlianfoundation.am}}</ref>
 
== Demographics ==
The village hashad an ethnic [[Armenians|Armenian]]-majority population, with 467 inhabitants in 2005,<ref name="2005nkrcensus">{{Cite web|url=http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/1-1.pdf|title=The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic|website=National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh}}</ref> and 528 inhabitants in 2015.<ref name="2015statistics"/> ItAccording to one study, the village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to their expulsionexodus induring the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh warWar]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Андрей Зубов|title=Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война|url=https://drugoivzgliad.com/karabach-mir-i-voina-a-zubov/|website=drugoivzgliad.com}}</ref>{{Bcn|date=December 2021}} According to Melkumyan's book, the village has been solely inhabited by Armenians.<ref name="melkumyan" /> In 1970 the village had 87 houses and 366 inhabitants, and by 1987 there were 173 houses and 476 inhabitants.<ref name="melkumyan" />
 
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