Shahumian
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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.
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History
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]
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