Meysəri

Municipality in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan

Meysəri Մեյսարի • Meysari
Municipality

40°39′57″N 48°35′11″E / 40.66583°N 48.58639°E / 40.66583; 48.58639
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Shamakhi
Population ^{[citation needed]}
• Total	624
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Meysəri (also Meysary; Armenian: Մեյսարի, romanized: Meysari) is a village and municipality in the Shamakhi District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 624. The village had an Armenian population before the exodus of Armenians from Azerbaijan after the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.^[1]

In Meysary there were two Armenian Apostolic churches: Surb Nshan and Surb Astvatsatsin.^[2]^[3] Surb Astvatsatsin was blown up in 1972.^[3]

References

^ Narine Vlasyan (2019-02-05). "Shamakhi: A Lost Dialect, a Lost Identity". evnreport.com.
^ The Armenian Rebellion of the 1720s and the Threat of Genocidal Reprisal, 1997
^ ^a ^b "Azerbaijan - Shamakhi District". Research on Armenian Architecture.