Agdam

Agdam is a former ghost city inside the southwest part of Azerbaijan and the formal capital of its Agdam District, these days controlled by way of the de facto Republic of Artsakh, however de jure the world over identified territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Founded inside the early 19th century, it grew appreciably for the duration of the Soviet period and had 28,000 inhabitants by 1989. Armenian forces captured Agdam in July 1993 for the duration of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The heavy fighting compelled the whole populace to flee eastwards. Upon seizing the metropolis, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic forces destroyed plenty of the city to discourage Azerbaijanis from returning. More harm occurred inside the following decades when locals

looted the deserted city for constructing substances. It is currently nearly totally ruined and uninhabited. According to the United Nations Security Council's resolution #853 that 'Demands the instantaneous cessation of all hostilities, calls on withdrawal of Armenian troops from Agdam and other lately occupied regions of the Azerbaijani Republic and reaffirms UN Resolution 822'.