Ağbulaq, Khojavend

For other places with the same name, see Ağbulaq.

For the village of Aknaghbyur, formerly in the province of Askeran, Artsakh, see Qarabulaq, Khojaly.

Aghbulag (Azerbaijani: Ağbulaq) or Aknaghbyur (Armenian: Ակնաղբյուր) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Coordinates: 39°33′17″N 47°04′59″E
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Khojavend
Population  (2015)[1]
• Total	322
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

History

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Hadrut Province of the Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.^[2]

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include an 18th/19th-century cemetery, and the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին, lit. 'Holy Mother of God').^[1]

Demographics

The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.^[3] Prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, it also had an Armenian majority with 330 inhabitants in 2005,^[4] and 322 inhabitants in 2015.^[1]