Salakətin

Salakətin is a village situated in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, it is the centre of the Salakatin rural administrative-territorial county.

Geography

The village of Salakatin is part of the Salakatin rural administrative-territorial county of the Khojavend district, and the village of Salakatin is the centre of this rural administrative-territorial area. The village is located on the Karabakh Ridge.

History

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Azykh village council of Hadrut district in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region of Azerbaijan SSR and had an overwhelmingly Azerbaijani population. In 1926, a school was built in the village.

Population

According to the "Caucasian Calendar" of 1856, Salakatin was inhabited by "Tatars" Sunnis, who spoke "Tatar" among themselves.
In the family lists of 1886, it was noted that the village of Salakatin in the Shusha district, Elizavetpol province had 96 residents being Azerbaijanis of Shia Muslim faith.

Economy

Before the conflict, the village's population was engaged in viticulture, grain farming, animal husbandry, and sericulture. The village had severely suffered as a result of the Karabakh conflict and, after coming under the control of the unrecognized NKR, was burned and vandalised.