Horadiz

Horadiz is a city and municipality in the Fuzuli District of Azerbaijan, located on the left bank of the Aras river. As of 2019, it had a population of 7,600 people.^[1]

Horadiz
Municipality
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Coordinates: 39°26′52″N 47°20′11″E
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Fuzuli
Population [1]
• Total	7,600
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

History

During the Russian Empire, the village of Horadiz was part of the Jebrail Uyezd of Elisabethpol Governorate. According to the "Caucasian calendar" of 1912, the village had 1,424 inhabitants, the majority of whom were Azerbaijanis, who were listed as "Tatars" in the calendar.^[2]

Horadiz was designated as an urban-type settlement on 24 September 1947.^[3] It had a population of 5,689 people according to the 1989 Soviet census.

During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was the scene of fierce fighting. On 24 October 1993, the village was captured by Armenian forces, which was condemned by UN Security Council Resolution No. 884 of 12 November 1993 and labelled as an occupation.^[4] On 6 January 1994, the Azerbaijani army regained control of the village in a counter-offensive.^[5] On 23 October 2007, Horadiz was granted city status.^[6]

Economy and culture

In the post-war period, Horadiz became the unofficial centre of the Fuzuli District, and large projects were implemented in the area of social infrastructure - 24 schools, 2 hospitals, Olympic Sports Complex, youth centre, historical and ethnographic museum, and mugham centre were built, individual houses restored.^[7]

Since the fall of the city of Fuzuli under Armenian control in 1993, Horadiz has housed a number of cultural establishments previously based in Fuzuli, namely the Fuzuli State Drama Theatre,^[8] the Fuzuli Museum of Local History^[9] and the Fuzuli State Art Gallery.^[10]

Gallery

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  Fuzuli District administrative headquarters

References

1. "DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS OF AZERBAIJAN". State Statistics Committee. Baku. 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
2. Кавказский календарь на 1912 год [Caucasian calendar for 1912] (in Russian) (67th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1912. p. 141. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021.
3. Азербайджанская ССР. Административно-территориальное деление на 1 января 1977 года (4 ed.). Baku. 1979. p. 10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. "RESOLUTION 874 (1993)" (PDF). United Nations Security Council. 14 October 1993. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
5. de Vaal, Tomas (2005). Qara bağ. BBC. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
6. "Закон Азербайджанской Республики об изменениях об административном делении Физулинского района Азербайджанской Республики № 468 от 23 октября 2007 года" (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on 2014-10-26.
7. "Azərbaycan Respublikasının Prezidenti İlham Əliyev Füzuli şəhərində Memorial Kompleksin və şəhərin bərpasının təməl daşını qoydu". Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Şəhərsalma və Arxitektura Komitəsi (in Azerbaijani). 2021-10-18. Archived from the original on 2021-11-12. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
8. "Füzuli Dövlət Dram Teatrının tarixi" (in Azerbaijani). Füzuli Dövlət Dram Teatrı. 2014-05-19. Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
9. ""Qarabağ – mədəniyyətimizin beşiyi": Füzuli Tarix-Diyarşünaslıq Muzeyi". Министерство культуры Азербайджана. 2020-09-30. Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
10. "İlham Əliyev Horadiz şəhərində Dövlət Rəsm Qalereyasının açılışında iştirak edib". President.az. 2016-11-26. Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2022-02-19.