In order to realize its unlawful and groundless territorial claims, at the end of 1991 and the beginning of 1992, Armenia unleashed full-scale war against Azerbaijan. As a result, a significant part of the territory of Azerbaijan was occupied by Armenia. The war claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and ruined cities, towns and villages. All occupied areas were ethnically cleansed of more than 700,000 Azerbaijanis. Likewise, about 250,000 Azerbaijanis, out of a population of once half a million who had remained in Armenia, were also brutally expelled from their ancestral lands at the end of 1980s.
Below is the territories of Azerbaijan subjected to occupation of Armenia
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Territories of Azerbaijan subjected to military occupation of Armenia
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Name |
Date of occupation |
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Karki (Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of the Republic of Azerbaijan) |
15.01.1990
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Baganis Ayrym (Gazakh district) |
24.03.1990 |
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Khankandi |
28.12.1991 |
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Khojaly |
26.02.1992 |
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Kheyrymly (Gazakh district) |
08.03.1992 |
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Ashaghy Askipara (Gazakh district) |
12.03.1992 |
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Barkhudarly (Gazakh district) |
27.04.1992 |
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Sofulu (Gazakh district) |
27.04.1992 |
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Shusha |
08.05.1992 |
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Gyzylhajyly (Gazakh district) |
11.05.1992 |
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Lachin |
18.05.1992 |
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Yukhary Askipara (Gazakh district) |
08.06.1992 |
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Khojavand |
02.10.1992 |
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Kalbajar |
02.04.1993 |
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Aghdara[1] |
07.07.1993 |
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Aghdam |
23.07.1993 |
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Fuzuli |
23.08.1993 |
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Jabrayil |
23.08.1993 |
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Gubadly |
31.08.1993 |
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Zangilan |
29.10.1993 |
[1] Aghdara district was abolished on October 13, 1992, and its territory included into the administrative boundaries of Aghdam, Kalbajar and Tartar districts.