Axullu

Akhullu / Hartashen
Axullu / Հարթաշեն
Akhullu / Hartashen is located in Azerbaijan
Akhullu / Hartashen
Akhullu / Hartashen
Location within Azerbaijan
Akhullu / Hartashen is located in Karabakh Economic Region
Akhullu / Hartashen
Akhullu / Hartashen
Location within Karabakh Economic Region
Coordinates: 39°34′00″N 47°05′32″E / 39.56667°N 47.09222°E / 39.56667; 47.09222
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictKhojavend
Population
 (2015)
 • Total
91
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Akhullu (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.

History

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. During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village came under the control of Armenian forces, on 2 October 1992. 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

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a cemetery from between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Demographics

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. 101 inhabitants in 2005, and 91 inhabitants in 2015.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. ↑ Ваган Арутюнян. События в Нагорном Карабахе: январь—декабрь 1990 г.. Ереван, Изд. АН Армянской ССР, 1993.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. ↑ "Azerbaijan Development Gateway". Archived from the original on 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
  5. ↑ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.