Agdam (city)
| Ağdam Ակնա / Աղդամ Akna / Aghdam Ağdam |
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| Country |
 Azerbaijan / Artsakh Republic (de facto) |
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| Province in Artsakh | Askeran | ||
| Rayon in Azerbaijan | Agdam | ||
| founding year | Mid 18th century | ||
| Coordinates | 40 ° 0 ′ N , 46 ° 56 ′ E | ||
| Residents | 360 (2010) | ||
| Time zone | UTC + 4 | ||
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Ağdam ( Azerbaijani ; Armenian Աղդամ Aghdam , Russian Агдам Agdam ) or Akna ( Armenian Ակնա ) is a town in Azerbaijan and the capital of the Ağdam district . The place has been occupied by the Armenian army since 1993 and was abandoned as a result. It is administered by the Artsakh Republic (formerly Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) as part of the Askeran Province and part of its capital Askeran . According to the data of Artsakh, the place has 360 inhabitants.
history
The city was founded in the middle of the 18th century and made a city in 1828. In the period before the First World War , the railway line from Yevlax to Stepanakert ran through the town and a train station was set up. In addition, several highways crossed in Agdam. In 1968 the city had about 18,000 inhabitants, a large dairy, winery, canning factory and metal processing plant. There was a vocational school for agriculture and agricultural machinery, a medical school, a music school and a theater. In 1989 the city had about 28,000 inhabitants.
In 1990 there was an attack on a bus . On July 23, 1993, the city was occupied by the Armenian army and has since been administered by the internationally unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic as part of the Askeran Province . During the conflict, part of the population fled to other parts of Azerbaijan. According to reports, Agdam is an orphaned ghost town . A BBC World Service correspondent reported after a visit to Agdam in 2000 that houses in the city had been destroyed after the conquest to prevent refugees from returning. Agdam was previously the starting point for Azerbaijani attacks against Nagorno-Karabakh.
In 2010, Agdam was renamed "Akna" by the Nagorno-Karabakh government and assigned to the city of Askeran . According to Karabakh, around 360 Armenian settlers live in the city today.
Culture and sport
There is a mosque in Agdam . Other monuments are the Üzərlik-Təpə and the courtyard of Panah Ali Khan . The football club FK Qarabağ Ağdam comes from the city, but has been based in Baku since the occupation .
sons and daughters of the town
- Ramiz Guliyev (* 1947), tar player and music teacher
- Tamerlan Garayev (* 1952), diplomat
- Röya (* 1982), pop singer and actress
literature
- Aude de Tocqueville: Atlas of the lost cities . Frederking & Thaler , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95416-179-9 .
Web links
- Entry at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan (English)
- André Widmer: Agdam - ghost town in no man's land In: Neues Deutschland from May 27, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report: Agdam, the ghost town of November 2, 2004, by Célia CHAUFFOUR in Agdam, translated by Nadine BECKER ( Memento of September 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Agdam: The Ghosts in No Man's Land, August 10, 2010, accessed on August 10, 2010
- ↑ a b Report to Armenia Today (Russian)
- ↑ Article Ağdam in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: World Gazetteer on the largest cities in Azerbaijan
- ^ Spiegel Online Reise, November 16, 2007 (accessed April 11, 2010).
- ↑ Robert Parsons: Tug-of-war for Nagorno-Karabakh at news.bbc.co.uk from June 3, 2000 (accessed April 12, 2010).
- ↑ azerb.com about city and rayon