Martuni District ( az, Martuni rayonu; hy, Մարտունու շրջան) was an administrative unit within the former
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) of the
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist R ...
.
History
The administrative centre of the district was the town of
Martuni.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast was
abolished on 26 November 1991. On 13 October 1992, the Martuni district was merged with the
Hadrut district to form the
Khojavend District.
Following 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 ...
, most of the former district came under the control of the
self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh and was incorporated into its
Martuni Province, while
Azerbaijan retained control of a small eastern part of the district. During 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 ...
, Azerbaijan recaptured the southern part of the former district.
Demographics
References
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Subdivisions of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
History of the Republic of Artsakh