Aşağı Ağcakənd

Coordinates: 40°25′20″N 46°33′36″E / 40.42222°N 46.56°E / 40.42222; 46.56

Aşağı Ağcakənd
—  Municipality  —
Aşağı Ağcakənd
Coordinates: 40°25′20″N 46°33′36″E / 40.42222°N 46.56°E / 40.42222; 46.56
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Goranboy
Population
– Total	207
Time zone	AZT (UTC+4)
– Summer (DST)	AZT (UTC+5)

Aşağı Ağcakənd (formerly Shaumyan) is a village in the Goranboy Rayon of Azerbaijan. The municipality consists of the villages of Aşağı Ağcakənd, Yuxarı Ağcakənd and Meşəli.^[1]

During Soviet times Aşağı Ağcakənd was officially named Shaumian after the Bolshevik leader Stepan Shahumyan. In December 1991 with the Soviet Union imploding, Shaumian was claimed by the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic even though it had not fallen within the Soviet boundaries of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. It became the focus for considerable fighting which reached a climax in summer 1992 when most of the area was retaken by the Azerbaijan army. Damage was severe and the population, then predominantly ethnic-Armenian, fled.

Today Aşağı Ağcakənd town remains noticeably war-damaged but has been partly re-populated by ethnic Azerbaijani refugees^[2] and idps.

References

1. ^ Belediyye Informasiya Sistemi
2. ^ Trailblazer "Azerbaijan with Excursions to Georgia", Hindhead, UK, 2004; p245

• Aşağı Ağcakənd at GEOnet Names Server