Vağazin Explained

Official Name:	Vağazin
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:	53
Timezone:	AZT
Utc Offset:	+4
Coordinates:	39.7769°N 46.4806°W

Vaghazin (Azerbaijani: Vağazin; Armenian: Վաղազին) 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. The village subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province. It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

Demographics

The village had 58 inhabitants in 2005,^[2] and 53 inhabitants in 2015.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015). Hakob Ghahramanyan.
2. Web site: The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.