Aghdam

Town in Karabakh, east of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. In the 1st century BC, Tigranes the Great built here a city and named it Tigranakert. In ancient times and in the early Middle ages, the area was part of Outik province of Greater Armenia. Once a large village with the predominant Armenian population, Aghdam became a large Azeri town in the Soviet period; in 1992-1993, the Azeri military deployed here a base used for systematic bombardment of the NKR Armenian-populated points. In summer of 1993, Aghdam was taken by the Armenian forces, and is presently under the Armenian control.

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