Əyrik
39°37′11″N 46°43′14″E / 39.61972°N 46.72056°E
Əyrik | |
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Coordinates: 39°37′11″N 46°43′14″E / 39.61972°N 46.72056°E | |
Country | ![]() |
District | Lachin |
Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
Əyrik (Eyrik) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.
History
The village was located in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.
The village subsequently became part of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh.
It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.
References
- ^ Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi (2019). "İnzibati ərazi bölgüsü təsnifatı" (PDF) (in Azerbaijani). stat.gov.az. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-16. Retrieved 2021-06-01.