Shahumian
Shahumian Շահումյան | |
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| Caipital | Kalbajar (umwhile Shahumian) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1830 km2 (710 sq mi) |
| Area rank | Ranked 3rd |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 2,560 |
| • Rank | Ranked 8th |
| • Density | 1.4/km2 (3.6/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
Shahumian (Armenie: Շահումյան) is a disputit region, umwhile a destrict o Azerbaijan SSR ootside o Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. Afore the Nagorno-Karabakh War o the 1990s, the region haed a substantial Armenie population. The eastren pairt o the territory remains unner the control o Azerbaijan an is incorporatit intae Goranboy Rayon, but the area is claimit bi the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
History
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In antiquity the territory wis a pairt o Artsakh; in the Middle Ages it wis pairt o the principality of Khachen; in the 17-18t yeirhunners the territory formit pairt o Melik-Abovian dynasty's melikdom[1] o Gulistan, wi its capital in the fortress o that name. Durin Soviet times in the area wis renamit efter the Armenie Bolshevik Stepan Shahumyan, its administrative centre takkin the same name.
Bi the 1990s the population o Shahumian destrict wis amaist exclusively Armenie bi leid an ethnicity, tho the area wisnae includit athin the mairches o the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast bi the Soviet Union.
In the spring-simmer o 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev ordered Operation Ring[2] in whilk the Soviet Red Airmy surroondit some o the area's Armenie veelages (notably Getashen an Martunashen) an violently deportit their inhabitants tae Armenie.
Approximately 17,000 Armenies bidin in Shahumian's twinty-three veelages wur deportit oot o the region.[3]
In December 1991 wi the Soviet Union implodin, Shahumian wis claimit bi the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic an becam the focus fur considerable fechtin. This reached a climax in simmer 1992 whan maist o the area wis retaken bi the Azerbaijani airmy. Damage wis severe an the Armenie population fled.
The historical name o the toun o Shahumian, Aşağı Ağcakənd, wis restored in 1992 an it haes been pairtly re-populatit bi ethnic Azerbaijani refugees an internally displacit persons [4]
Freemit airtins
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[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Raffi. Melikdoms of Khamsa.
- ↑ Karabagh Massacres Chronicle
- ↑ Melkonian. My Brother's Road, p. 186
- ↑ Trailblazer "Azerbaijan with Excursions to Georgia", Hindhead, UK, 2004; p245
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1 Claimit bi the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic but unner Azerbaijani control. 2 Claimit bi the Nagorno Karabakh Republic as the caipital o the province o Shahumyan. | ||