Baharlı, Khojaly

Baharlı (Baharly; formerly Quşçubaba)[2][3] or Moshkhmhat (Armenian: Մոշխմհատ, Azerbaijani: Moşxmhat) is a village in Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[4]

Baharly / Moshkhmhat
Baharlı / Մոշխմհատ
Baharly / Moshkhmhat
Baharly / Moshkhmhat
Coordinates: 39°40′59″N 46°51′07″E
Country Azerbaijan
 Republic of Artsakh (claimed)
DistrictKhojaly
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total64
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

History

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

The village was captured by Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and was administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The village was recaptured by Azerbaijan on 7 November 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[5]

References
  1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. Военно-топографическая пятиверстная карта Кавказского края 1926 года.
  3. Azərbaycan Respublikasının bəzi yaşayış məntəqələrinin tarixi adlarının bərpası və dəqiqləşdirilməsi haqqında. 29 December 1992.
  4. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  5. "Bu kəndlər də azad edildi". aznews.az (in Azerbaijani). 7 October 2020.
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