Nerkin Horatagh

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Nerkin Horatagh (Armenian: Ներքին Հոռաթաղ) or Ashaghy Oratagh (Azerbaijani: Aşağı Oratağ) is a village de facto in the Martakert Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan. The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989. During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a church built in 1094, a medieval cemetery, the church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին, lit. 'Holy Mother of God') built in 1904-1914, and St. George's Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Գևորգ եկեղեցի, romanized: Surb Gevorg Yekeghetsi) built in 2012.