Official Name: | Edilli / Ukhtadzor |
Native Name: | Էդիլլու / Ուխտաձոր |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Khojavend |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 309 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.5608°N 47.0692°W |
Edilli (Azerbaijani: Edilli; Armenian: Էդիլլու|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]
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 in and around the village include the church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,) built in 1692, and a cemetery from between the 17th and 19th centuries.[1]
The village had 327 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 309 inhabitants in 2015.[1]