Ağanus Explained

Official Name:Aghanus
Native Name:Ağanus
Աղանուս
Pushpin Map:Azerbaijan#East Zangezur
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Azerbaijan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Lachin
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2015
Population Total:40
Utc Offset:+4
Coordinates:39.6175°N 46.5736°W

Aghanus (Azerbaijani: Ağanus; Armenian: Աղանուս) 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, subsequently becoming part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province. The village was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

On August 10, 2022, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of the former breakaway state of Nagorno Karabakh Hayk Khanumyan announced that the village would be located in the new corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled by Russian peacekeepers, that replaced the Lachin corridor that same month.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015). Hakob Ghahramanyan.
  2. Web site: 2022-08-10 . Ինչո՞ւ են արգելում այրել տները. զարգացումներ Արցախի Աղավնո գյուղի շուրջ . jam-news.net.