Ağcakənd, Lachin

Place in Lachin, Azerbaijan
39°46′16″N 46°21′32″E / 39.77111°N 46.35889°E / 39.77111; 46.35889Country AzerbaijanDistrictLachinPopulation
 (2005)[1]
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Ağcakənd (Aghjakend) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.

History

The village was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s. The village subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Drakhtadzor (Armenian: Դրախտաձոր). The village was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

Demographics

The community of Drakhtadzor included the village of Ani, and the Drakhtadzor community had a population of 78 in 2005, with 44 in Drakhtadzor and 34 in Ani,[1] and the Drakhtadzor community had a population of 62 in 2015.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
  2. ^ Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".

External links

  • Ağcakənd, Lachin at GEOnet Names Server
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