# Horadiz

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|image_caption = Horadiz city direction sign
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'''Horadiz''' is a city and municipality in the [Fuzuli District](/source/Fuzuli_District) of [Azerbaijan](/source/Azerbaijan), located on the left bank of the [Aras river](/source/Aras_river). As of 2019, it had a population of 7,600 people.<ref name="demography" />

== History ==
During the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire), the village of Horadiz was part of the [Jebrail Uyezd](/source/Jebrail_Uyezd) of [Elisabethpol Governorate](/source/Elisabethpol_Governorate). According to the "Caucasian calendar" of 1912, the village had 1,424 inhabitants, the majority of whom were [Azerbaijani Turks](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Soviet_Census_(1989)).

During the [First Nagorno-Karabakh War](/source/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War), the village was the scene of fierce fighting. On 24 October 1993, the village was captured by [Armenian](/source/Armenians) 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](/source/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](/source/Operation_Horadiz).<ref name=Vaal>{{cite book|last1=de Vaal|first1=Tomas|title=Qara bağ|date=2005|publisher=[BBC](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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 ==
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{{Fuzuli District}}
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Category:Populated places in Fuzuli District

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