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Xankändi
Xankändi, Azerbaijan Vararakn, Khankendy, Stepanakert ‘Town of the Khan’ from xändi (kendy) ‘town’. Khankendy replaced Vararakn in 1847. In 1923 the town was rebuilt as the new capital of Nagornyy‐Karabakh after the destruction of Shusha and was renamed again after Stepan Shaumyan (1878–1918), a Georgian Bolshevik hero who founded the Armenian communist movement in 1912 and who was killed fighting for the communist cause. It has been suggested, wrongly, that it was renamed after Stepan Muradyan, leader of the Karabakh Dashnaks at the time of independence (1918–20) and a man inimical to the Azeris. Added to the personal name Stepan was the suffix kert ‘dedicated to’. Captured and held by Armenian forces since 1993, it is still called Stepanakert by them, although the Azeris restored the name Khankendy in 1991. The transliterated Azeri Cyrillic form gave Xankändi and, following Azeri adoption of the roman script, this is now the official spelling.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Xankändi." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Xankändi." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Xankndi.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Xankändi." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Xankndi.html |
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