Ataqut
Place in Khojavend, Azerbaijan
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Atagut (Azerbaijani: Ataqut) or Taghut (Armenian: Թաղուտ) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]
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Country
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAtagut / Taghut
Ataqut / Թաղուտ | |
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19th-century St. John's Church in the village | |
  Atagut / Taghut  Atagut / Taghut | |
| Coordinates: 39°34′11″N 46°57′43″E | |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| District | Khojavend |
| Population (2015)[1] | |
• Total | 205 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
History
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Hadrut Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village came under the control of Azerbaijan on 7 November 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
