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Axullu
View on WikipediaAkhullu (Azerbaijani: Axullu; Armenian: Հախլլու, romanized: Hakhlu) or Hartashen (Armenian: Հարթաշեն) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to their expulsion during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[2]
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History
[edit]During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. Before the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the village was inhabited by about 600 Azerbaijanis. On 8 January 1992, the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village were forced to leave Akhullu due to shelling by the Armenian forces.[3] During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village came under the control of Armenian forces, on 2 October 1992.[4] After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Hadrut Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village came under the control of Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Historical heritage sites
[edit]Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a cemetery from between the 17th and 19th centuries.[1]
Demographics
[edit]The village had about 600 inhabitants, mostly Azerbaijani, during the Soviet period. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh war, the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village were forced to leave the village.[3] 101 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 91 inhabitants in 2015.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
- ^ Ваган Арутюнян. События в Нагорном Карабахе: январь—декабрь 1990 г.. Ереван, Изд. АН Армянской ССР, 1993.
- ^ a b Bloodshed in the Caucasus: Escalation of the Armed Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh (PDF). Human Rights Watch. 1992. p. 28. ISBN 978-1564320810. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-18.
- ^ "Azerbaijan Development Gateway". Archived from the original on 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
- ^ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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