{{Infobox settlement |name = Horadiz |settlement_type = Municipality |native_name = |other_name = |pushpin_map = Azerbaijan#Karabakh |pushpin_mapsize = |image_skyline = Horadiz şəhəri istiqamət lövhəsi.jpg |image_caption = Horadiz city direction sign |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Azerbaijan}} |subdivision_type1 = District |subdivision_name1 = Fuzuli |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = |established_date = |area_total_km2 = |area_footnotes = |population_as_of = |population_total = 7,600 |population_footnotes = <ref name="demography">{{cite web |title=DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS OF AZERBAIJAN |url=https://www.stat.gov.az/menu/6/statistical_yearbooks/source/demoqraphy_2019.zip |website=State Statistics Committee |access-date=2 June 2022 |location=Baku |date=2019}}</ref> |population_density_km2 = |timezone = AZT |utc_offset = +4 |coordinates = {{coord|39|26|52|N|47|20|11|E|region:AZ|display=inline,title}} |elevation_m = |area_code = |website = }} '''Horadiz''' is a city and municipality in the Fuzuli District of Azerbaijan, located on the left bank of the Aras river. As of 2019, it had a population of 7,600 people.<ref name="demography" />
== History == During the Russian Empire, the village of Horadiz was part of the Jebrail Uyezd of Elisabethpol Governorate. According to the "Caucasian calendar" of 1912, the village had 1,424 inhabitants, the majority of whom were Azerbaijani Turks, who were listed as "Tatars" in the calendar.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/417317 |title=Кавказский календарь на 1912 год |publisher=Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom |year=1912 |edition=67th |publication-place=Tiflis |pages=141 |language=Russian |trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1912 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211164139/https://www.prlib.ru/item/417317 |archive-date=11 December 2021}}</ref>
Horadiz was designated as an urban-type settlement on 24 September 1947.<ref>{{cite book |title=Азербайджанская ССР. Административно-территориальное деление на 1 января 1977 года |date=1979 |location=Baku |page=10 |edition=4}}</ref> It had a population of 5,689 people according to the 1989 Soviet census.
During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was the scene of fierce fighting. On 24 October 1993, the village was captured by Armenian forces, which was condemned by UN Security Council Resolution No. 884 of 12 November 1993 and labelled as an occupation.<ref>{{cite web |title=RESOLUTION 874 (1993) |url=http://unscr.com/files/1993/00884.pdf |website=United Nations Security Council |access-date=2 June 2022 |date=14 October 1993}}</ref> On 6 January 1994, the Azerbaijani army regained control of the village in a counter-offensive.<ref name=Vaal>{{cite book|last1=de Vaal|first1=Tomas|title=Qara bağ|date=2005|publisher=BBC|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/in_depth/newsid_4685000/4685081.stm|access-date=26 August 2016}}</ref> On 23 October 2007, Horadiz was granted city status.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://e-qanun.az/print.php?internal=view&target=1&docid=14110&doctype=0 |title=Закон Азербайджанской Республики об изменениях об административном делении Физулинского района Азербайджанской Республики № 468 от 23 октября 2007 года |lang=az |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026192001/http://e-qanun.az/print.php?internal=view&target=1&docid=14110&doctype=0 |archive-date=2014-10-26 }}</ref>
== Economy and culture == In the post-war period, Horadiz became the unofficial centre of the Fuzuli District, and large projects were implemented in the area of social infrastructure - 24 schools, 2 hospitals, Olympic Sports Complex, youth centre, historical and ethnographic museum, and mugham centre were built, individual houses restored.<ref>{{Cite web |language=az |url=https://arxkom.gov.az/media/xeberler/azerbaycan-respublikasinin-prezidenti-ilham-eliyev-fuzuli-seherinde-memorial-kompleksin-ve-seherin-berpasinin-temel-dasini-qoydu|title=Azərbaycan Respublikasının Prezidenti İlham Əliyev Füzuli şəhərində Memorial Kompleksin və şəhərin bərpasının təməl daşını qoydu |website=Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Şəhərsalma və Arxitektura Komitəsi |date=2021-10-18 |access-date=2021-12-13 |archive-date=2021-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112121404/https://arxkom.gov.az/media/xeberler/azerbaycan-respublikasinin-prezidenti-ilham-eliyev-fuzuli-seherinde-memorial-kompleksin-ve-seherin-berpasinin-temel-dasini-qoydu }}</ref>
Since the fall of the city of Fuzuli under Armenian control in 1993, Horadiz has housed a number of cultural establishments previously based in Fuzuli, namely the Fuzuli State Drama Theatre,<ref>{{cite web |last = |first = |authorlink = |date = 2014-05-19 |url = https://fuzuliteatr.az/posts/detail/fuzuli-dovlet-dram-teatri-104800 |title = Füzuli Dövlət Dram Teatrının tarixi |format = |work = |publisher = Füzuli Dövlət Dram Teatrı |accessdate = 2022-02-19 |lang = az |archive-date = 2022-02-19 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220219024135/https://fuzuliteatr.az/posts/detail/fuzuli-dovlet-dram-teatri-104800}}</ref> the Fuzuli Museum of Local History<ref>{{cite web| title=“Qarabağ – mədəniyyətimizin beşiyi”: Füzuli Tarix-Diyarşünaslıq Muzeyi| publisher=Министерство культуры Азербайджана| url=http://mct.gov.az/az/umumi-xeberler/13258| date=2020-09-30| access-date=2022-02-19| archive-date=2022-02-19| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219164504/http://mct.gov.az/az/umumi-xeberler/13258}}</ref> and the Fuzuli State Art Gallery.<ref>{{cite web| title=İlham Əliyev Horadiz şəhərində Dövlət Rəsm Qalereyasının açılışında iştirak edib| publisher=President.az| url=https://president.az/az/articles/view/21661| date=2016-11-26| access-date=2022-02-19| archive-date=2022-02-19| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219024908/https://president.az/az/articles/view/21661}}</ref>
== Gallery == <gallery> Füzuli rayon icra hakimiyyətinin binası.jpg|Fuzuli District administrative headquarters File:Horadiz şəhəri park foto 2.jpg|Park in Horadiz File:Horadiz city flag square.jpg|Horadiz city flag square </gallery>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Fuzuli District}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Populated places in Fuzuli District