İstisu, Kalbajar explained

Official Name:Istisu
Pushpin Map:Azerbaijan#East Zangezur
Pushpin Mapsize:300px
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Azerbaijan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Kalbajar
Timezone:AZT
Utc Offset:+4
Coordinates:39.9481°N 45.9617°W

İstisu (in Azerbaijani) is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan.

Situated in a river valley, Istisu has historically been a resort town, and during the Soviet period, it attracted people from all over the USSR to be treated at the mineral-springs baths located in the area.[1]

History

In the early Middle Ages, the royal baths of the rulers of Caucasian Albania were located in İstisu.[2] There is a resort in the town, known as Istisu resort.

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 Shahumyan Province, referred to as Jermajur (Armenian: Ջերմաջուր). In 2018 it was reported that work has begun on a privately funded factory to produce mineral water. İstisu was returned to Azerbaijan on 25 November 2020 as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: For Armenians, they're not occupied territories – they're the homeland . Kucera . Joshua . August 5, 2018 . eurasianet.org.
  2. Book: Hewsen, R. H. . The Geography of Ananias of Širak: Ašxarhacʻoycʻ, the Long and the Short Recensions . Reichert . 1992 . 197 .