Binedarasi () or Banadzor () is a village in the

Khojavend District Khojavend District () is one of the 66 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan, districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country in the Karabakh Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Lachin District, Lachin, Shush ...

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, in the

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region of

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. The village had an ethnic

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-majority population prior to the

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, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989. The village had 143 inhabitants in 2005, and 175 inhabitants in 2015.

History

During the

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period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the

Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) was an Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union, autonomous oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic that was created on July 7, 1923. Its capital was the city of Stepanakert. The majori ...

. During the

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, the village was destroyed and depopulated along with 16 other settlements in the Hadrut and Shusha districts as part of

Operation Ring Operation Ring (; , ), known in Azerbaijan as Operation Chaykand () was the codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by the Soviet Army, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union), Ministry of Internal Af ...

in 1991. This operation was conducted by the

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, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the USSR and

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units of the

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. The village came under the control of Armenian forces on 2 October 1992. After the

, the village was administrated as part of the

Hadrut Province Hadrut Province () was a province of the Republic of Artsakh. The provincial capital was Hadrut city. The last governor was Valery Gevorkian. The province was captured by the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Ka ...

of the breakaway

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. The village came under the control of Azerbaijan during the

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the chapel of ''Spitak Tgha'' () from between the 12th and 14th centuries, the 17th-century church of ''Surb Astvatsatsin'' (, ), a cemetery from between the 17th and 19th centuries, and a 19th-century bridge.

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* * {{Portal bar, Geography Populated places in Khojavend District