Wednesday 25 February 2009

Agdam

Once a proud city of over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants and the capital of the Agdam Rayon area of Azerbaijan. This once beautiful city became a ghost town in 1993 after the tensely fought war between Azerbaijan and Armenia for the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

In 1993 Armenian forces moved into the city taking seige then vandalising and trashing the properties of the city driving the people who lived there out. Since this time the city has lay empty as the Armenian government still lay claim to the area and have full control of it through military might.

Since the Azerbaijani people left the city has been desolate and decayed over time, the Armenians have done nothing with the land they have taken control of.

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