Hadrut (town)

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Hadrut
Հադրութ
The centre of Hadrut
The centre of Hadrut
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Country De facto Nagorno-Karabakh
De jure Azerbaijan
Province
Rayon
Hadrut
Khojavend
Population (2015)
 • Total 4,100 [1]
Time zone UTC (UTC+4)

Hadrut (Armenian: Հադրութ Azerbaijani: Hadrut) is de facto the administrative center of Hadrut Province, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and de jure a town in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan. The town has been de facto part of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since the end of the 1991-94 Nagorno-Karabakh War. According to NKR statistics, the town has a population of 4,100 as of 2015.[2]

History

From 10 September 1939, Hadrut was the capital of the Hadrut rayon within the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic until the abolishment of the Autonomous Oblast on 26 November 1991.[3]

During the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the town was occupied by the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army on 2 October 1992.

Twin towns - sister cities

References