Edilli / Ukhtadzor
Էդիլլու / Ուխտաձոր
Edilli / Ukhtadzor is located in Azerbaijan
Edilli / Ukhtadzor
Edilli / Ukhtadzor
Coordinates: 39°33′39″N 47°04′09″E / 39.56083°N 47.06917°E / 39.56083; 47.06917
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictKhojavend
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total309
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Edilli (Azerbaijani: Edilli; Armenian: Էդիլլու, romanized: Edillu) or Ukhtadzor (Armenian: Ուխտաձոր) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]

History

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. 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 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.

On 4 October 2022, Azerbaijani sources reported the discovery of three sites of graves it claimed to belong to Azerbaijani military servicemen from the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the village. As most of the buried soldiers had had their legs tied, Azerbaijani human rights lawyer Ziya Guliyev has described it "an example of a war crime."[3][4]

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին, lit. 'Holy Mother of God') built in 1692, and a cemetery from between the 17th and 19th centuries.[1]

Demographics

The village had 327 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 309 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. ↑ Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. ↑ "Ziya Guliyev". Israel Hayom.
  4. ↑ Ziya Guliyev (2022-10-30). "Time to find the missing from the Karabakh war". Israel Hayom.
  5. ↑ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.
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