Əhmədli, Lachin

39°41′04″N 46°17′10″E / 39.68444°N 46.28611°E / 39.68444; 46.28611Country AzerbaijanDistrictLachinPopulation • Total50Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Əhmədli (Ahmedli) 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 breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, where it was known as Herik (Armenian: Հերիկ). It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 17th-century St. George's Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Գևորգ եկեղեցի, romanized: Surb Gevorg Yekeghetsi).^[2][3]

Notable people

• Nazim Ahmedli (born 1953), the Director of the Literary Literature Affiliate Bureau of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers.

References

External links

• Əhmədli, Lachin at GEOnet Names Server