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Lachin (Laçın) Rayon
Map of Azerbaijan showing Lacin rayon
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| Population (before 1989, estimate): |
67,000 |
| Population (2002, estimate)[1]: |
15,000 |
| Area (sq. km.): |
1,840 |
| Zip Code: |
AZ4100 |
Lachin (Azerbaijani: Laçın) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. However, since 1992 the region has been under the control of the de-facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and has been renamed Kashatagh [2], the district's name during the late-medieval period. [3]
Upon the capture of Lachin rayon, Armenian forces forcefully displaced its entire Azeri and Kurdish population[4] and resettled the region with Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan[4] after the Nagorno-Karabakh War[5]. The main land-link between Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, known as the Lachin corridor, crosses its territory.
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[edit] References
- ^ EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Armenia’s Strategic Lachin Corridor Confronts a Demographic Crisis
- ^ Karapetyan, Samvel. Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabagh. Yerevan, 2001, p. 122.
- ^ Hewsen, Robert H. (2001). Armenia: A Historical Atlas. The University of Chicago Press, p. 100-104, 121-123. ISBN 0-226-33228-4.
- ^ a b Gutman, Roy; Rieff, David; Anderson, Kenneth (1999). Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. W. W. Norton and Co., 358. ISBN 0393319148.
- ^ EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Armenia’s Strategic Lachin Corridor Confronts a Demographic Crisis
