Bağanıs Ayrım | |
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  Bağanıs Ayrım | |
| Coordinates:41°05′48″N45°04′55″E / 41.09667°N 45.08194°E /41.09667; 45.08194 | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| District | Qazakh |
| Population (2024) | |
• Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Bağanıs Ayrım[1] is an abandoned village in theQazakh District ofAzerbaijan. The village was controlled byArmenia from theFirst Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s until 2024, when Armenia agreed to return the village to Azerbaijan.
On 22 March 1990, Azerbaijani farmers shot at passing trucks and cars with Armenian license plates, wounding several people in aVolga sedan.[2]
In retaliation, four days later, several cars full of Armenians armed with shotguns and assault rifles attacked Bağanıs Ayrım before dawn, setting fire to about 20 houses and killing 8 Azerbaijani civilians. The bodies of one family, including an infant, were reportedly found burnt in the embers of their house.[2] According toKommersant, eleven inhabitants of the village died during the attack.[3]
On 16 August 1990, a police checkpoint in the village was fired at by two Armenian militiamen driving aZhiguli car. One of the men, a native ofYerevan, was detained and imprisoned inGanja. In a phone call between the heads of theQazakh District and theNoyemberyan District, the latter reportedly threatened thatfedayeen would destroy Azeri villages if the prisoner was not released.[3]
On 19 August 1990, the village was reportedly shelled with a variety of heavy weapons by Armenian militants, who took control of it after several hours of fighting, allegedly with the help of reinforcements who had been flown in on helicopters from Yerevan. Azeri control over the village was restored the next day with the assistance of Sovietinternal troops under GeneralYuri Shatalin [ru].[3]
On 19 April 2024, Armenia agreed to return Bağanıs Ayrım to Azerbaijan,[4] which happened on 24 May.[5]
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