Umudlu / Aknaberd
Ումութլու / Ակնաբերդ | |
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Coordinates: 40°11′42″N 46°35′25″E / 40.19500°N 46.59028°E | |
Country | Azerbaijan |
• District | Tartar |
Population (2015)
[1] | |
• Total | 586 |
Time zone | UTC+4 ( AZT) |
Umudlu ( Armenian: Ումութլու, romanized: Umutlu) or Aknaberd ( Armenian: Ակնաբերդ, also Akanaberd Ականաբերդ, and Akana Ականա) is a village located in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to their exodus during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. [2]
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, and was incorporated into the Shahumyan Province of the Republic of Artsakh after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a secondary school, a kindergarten, five shops, and a medical centre. [1]
According to the "Statistical Data on the Population of the Transcaucasian Territory, Extracted from Family Lists of 1886" [a], Umudlu had 241 Tatar (Azerbaijani) inhabitants, with 52 belonging to the upper Muslim class. [3] According to the 1912 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the village had 362 residents, most of whom were Tatars. [4] According to the 1921 census of the Azerbaijan SSR, the village had 304 Azerbaijani inhabitants. [5] The village also had an Azerbaijani-majority population in 1991. [6] The entire population of the village was evacuated in February 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. [7][ better source needed] The village was settled by Armenians after the war.
The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, had 482 inhabitants in 2005, [8] and 586 inhabitants in 2015. [1]