- Lachin Rayon
Lachin ( _az. Laçın) is a rayon of
Azerbaijan . The capital lies atLachin city. However, since 1992 the region has been under the control of the unrecognizedde-facto independentNagorno-Karabakh Republic andArmenia [ [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aj.html#Issues CIA - The World Factbook -- Azerbaijan] ] and has been renamedQashatagh [Karapetyan, Samvel. "Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabagh". Yerevan, 2001, p. 122.] , the district's name during the late-medieval period. [cite book | last = Hewsen | first = Robert H. | title = Armenia: A Historical Atlas | year = 2001 | publisher =The University of Chicago Press | id = ISBN 0-226-33228-4 | pages = p. 100-104, 121-123 ]Upon the capture of Lachin rayon, Armenian forces forcefully displaced its entire Azeri and Kurdish populationcite book |title=Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know |last=Gutman |first=Roy |authorlink= |coauthors=Rieff, David; Anderson, Kenneth |year=1999 |publisher=W. W. Norton and Co. |location= |isbn=0393319148 |pages=358 ] and resettled the region with Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, settlers from Armenia and ethnic Armenians from other countries after the
Nagorno-Karabakh War [ [http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav091506.shtml EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Armenia’s Strategic Lachin Corridor Confronts a Demographic Crisis] ] . The main land-link betweenArmenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, known as theLachin corridor , crosses its territory.Kurdish autonomous district
Between 1923 to 1929, [ru icon [http://www.rau.su/observer/N21_93/21_09.HTM Russia and the problem of Kurds] ] Lachin was established as a Kurdish autonomous (Soviet) district. After the occupation by Armenia of Nagorny-Karabagh, the local Kurdish population helped Armenia to control the Lachin region and there were speculations over a restoration of the Kurdish Autonomous District there. [citeweb |url=http://rpmonitor.ru/en/en/detail.php?ID=7375 |author=Alexei Baliyev |date=December 11, 2007 (the date of publication in Russian) |title=The Kurdish Karabagh |publisher=Russky Predprinimatel Monitor ]
External links
* [http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav091506.shtml Demographic Crisis in Lachin]
* [http://www.oneworld.am/journalism/articles/lachin.html An eyewitness report of conditions in 2001]References
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