Köhnəkənd, Lachin

Köhnəkənd (Kohnakend) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.

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 breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Shushi Province and was referred to as Kirsavan (Armenian: Քիրսավան). The village was returned to Azerbaijan on 1 December 2020 per the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

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Köhnəkənd

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Coordinates: 39°37′56″N 46°42′11″E / 39.63222°N 46.70306°E / 39.63222; 46.70306
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Lachin
Population (2015)^[1]
• Total	86
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)