Official Name: | Lusadzor / Mehdibayli |
Native Name: | Լուսաձոր / Mehdibəyli |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type2: | Country |
Subdivision Name2: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Khojaly |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 177 |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.8931°N 46.7311°W |
Elevation M: | 823 |
Lusadzor (Armenian: Լուսաձոր) or Mehdibayli (Azerbaijani: Mehdibəyli) is a village located in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The village was known as Mekhdishen (Russian: Мехдишен) during the Soviet period.[2]
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a settlement, chapel-shrine and tombs from the 2nd–1st millennia BCE, as well as the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,).[1]
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a school, and a medical centre.[1]
The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, had 177 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 177 inhabitants in 2015.[1]