Qarasaqqal, Lachin

39°50′56″N 46°23′09″E

Qarasaqqal
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Coordinates: 39°50′56″N 46°23′09″E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Lachin
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Qarasaqqal is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.^[1][2]

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 as part of its Kashatagh Province.

It was returned to Azerbaijan as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

References

1. 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 2021-06-09.
2. Azərbaycan Respublikasının bəzi rayonlarının inzibati-ərazi bölgüsündə qismən dəyişikliklər edilməsi haqqında AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLIKASININ QANUNU, Baku, 1999-10-05, retrieved on 2021-06-09