Ağbənd () is a town in the Zangilan District of

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

close to the point at which the borders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Iran form a politically sensitive junction.

History

Until October 1993, livestock raising and the cultivation of agricultural crops were the main activities of the village. There was a club, a library and a first-aid post. The village came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces in October 1993 during the

First Nagorno-Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, referred to in Armenia as the Artsakh Liberation War ( hy, Արցախյան ազատամարտ, Artsakhyan azatamart) was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in th ...

. Located in the

Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh The Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh were areas of Azerbaijan, situated outside the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), which were occupied by the ethnic Armenian military forces of the breakaway Republi ...

, the village subsequently became part of the self-proclaimed

Republic of Artsakh Artsakh, officially the Republic of Artsakh () or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (),, is a list of states with limited recognition, breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan ...

as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Aghopen ( hy, Աղոպեն). It was recaptured by Azerbaijan on 22 October 2020 during the

Aras Valley campaign Aras Valley campaign (, ) was a military operation launched by Azerbaijan against the breakaway Republic of Artsakh along the Aras River in the Azerbaijan–Iran border during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. The operations started on 27 Septembe ...

in the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, the surrounding territories. It was a major escalation of ...

, which completed the takeover of the Azerbaijan-Iran border.

References

Populated places in Zangilan District {{Zangilan-geo-stub