Axullu

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| name = Akhullu / Hartashen

| native_name = Axullu / Հարթաշեն

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| subdivision_name = {{flag|Azerbaijan}}

| subdivision_type1 = District

| subdivision_name1 = Khojavend

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Akhullu ({{langx|az|Axullu}}; {{langx|hy|Հախլլու|Hakhlu}}) or Hartashen ({{langx|hy|Հարթաշեն}}) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to their expulsion during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.Ваган Арутюнян. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqDiAAAAMAAJ&dq=%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%83 События в Нагорном Карабахе: январь—декабрь 1990 г.]. Ереван, Изд. АН Армянской ССР, 1993.

History

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. Before the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the village was inhabited by about 600 Azerbaijanis. On 8 January 1992, the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village were forced to leave Akhullu due to shelling by the Armenian forces.{{cite book| first = | last = | url = https://www.hrw.org/reports/1992%20Bloodshed%20in%20Cauc%20-%20Escalation%20in%20NK.pdf | title = Bloodshed in the Caucasus: Escalation of the Armed Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh|date = 1992 |publisher= Human Rights Watch | pages = 28 | isbn = 978-1564320810|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218164900/https://www.hrw.org/reports/1992%20Bloodshed%20in%20Cauc%20-%20Escalation%20in%20NK.pdf|archive-date=2021-12-18}} During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village came under the control of Armenian forces, on 2 October 1992.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gateway.az/cgi-bin/cl2_gw/browse.cgi?lang=en&topic=000e2b |title=Azerbaijan Development Gateway |access-date=2019-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081114100250/http://www.gateway.az/cgi-bin/cl2_gw/browse.cgi?lang=en&topic=000e2b |archive-date=2008-11-14 |url-status=dead }} 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 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a cemetery from between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Demographics

The village had about 600 inhabitants, mostly Azerbaijani, during the Soviet period. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh war, the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village were forced to leave the village. 101 inhabitants in 2005,{{Cite web|url=http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/1-1.pdf|title=The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic|website=National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh}} and 91 inhabitants in 2015.

References

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Category:Populated places in Khojavend District

Category:Former Armenian inhabited settlements