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Coordinates: 40°25′20″N 46°33′36″E / 40.42222°N 46.56000°E / 40.42222; 46.56000
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40°25′20″N 46°33′36″E / 40.42222°N 46.56000°E / 40.42222; 46.56000

Aşağı Ağcakənd
Municipality
Country Azerbaijan
RayonGoranboy
Population
 • Total207
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

Aşağı Ağcakənd (also, Ashagi Agchakand, Ashagy Agdzhakend, Nerkishen, Nizhniy Agdzhakend, Novo Agdzhakend, Shahoumian, Shahumyan, Shaumyan, and Shaumyanovsk) is a village in the Goranboy Rayon of Azerbaijan. The municipality consists of the villages of Aşağı Ağcakənd, Yuxarı Ağcakənd and Meşəli.[1]

During Soviet times Aşağı Ağcakənd was officially named Shaumian after the Bolshevik leader Stepan Shahumyan. In December 1991 with the Soviet Union imploding, Shaumian was claimed by the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic even though it had not fallen within the Soviet boundaries of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. It became the focus for considerable fighting which reached a climax in summer 1992 when most of the area was retaken by the Azerbaijan army. Damage was severe and the population, then predominantly ethnic-Armenian, fled.

Today Aşağı Ağcakənd town remains noticeably war-damaged but has been partly re-populated by ethnic Azerbaijani refugees[2] and idps.


References

  1. ^ Template:AJmuni
  2. ^ Trailblazer "Azerbaijan with Excursions to Georgia", Hindhead, UK, 2004; p245