İstisu (, in Azerbaijani) is a village in the

Kalbajar District Kalbajar District () is one of the 66 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan, districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Lachin Distric ...

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

. Situated in a river valley, Istisu has historically been a

resort town A resort town, resort city or resort destination is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual resorts in the surrounding area. Sometimes ...

, and during the Soviet period, it attracted people from all over the USSR to be treated at the mineral-springs baths located in the area.

History

In the early

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

, the royal baths of the rulers of

Caucasian Albania Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus, mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are ''Aghwank'' and ''Aluank'', among ...

were located in İstisu. There is a resort in the town, known as

Istisu resort Istisu resort () or Istisu sanatorium () is a treatment and recreation centre established in 1927 in Istisu (literally ''warm water''), Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. In 1970, the Soviet government included the Istisu resort in the list of re ...

. The village was located in the

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

, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the

First Nagorno-Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic conflict, ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nag ...

in the early 1990s. The village subsequently became part of the breakaway

Republic of Artsakh Artsakh ( ), officially the Republic of Artsakh or the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ( ), was a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory was internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Between 1991 and 2023, Artsakh cont ...

as part of its

Shahumyan Province Shahumyan Province (, also spelled ''Shaumyan'' and ''Shahumian'') was a Administrative divisions of the Republic of Artsakh, province of the political status of Nagorno-Karabakh, breakaway Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' part of the Republic ...

, referred to as Jermajur (). In 2018 it was reported that work has begun on a privately funded factory to produce mineral water. İstisu was returned to Azerbaijan on 25 November 2020 as part of the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement was an armistice agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It was signed on 9November by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the Pr ...

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* Populated places in Kalbajar District Resorts in Azerbaijan {{Armenia-geo-stub

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