Seysulan

Seysulan (Armenian: Սեյսուլան) is a village de facto in the Martakert Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village is on the ceasefire line between the armed forces of Artsakh and Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.[1]

Seysulan
Սեյսուլան
Seysulan is located in Republic of Artsakh
Seysulan
Seysulan
Seysulan is located in Azerbaijan
Seysulan
Seysulan
Coordinates: 40°14′47″N 46°59′06″E
Country (de facto) Artsakh
 • ProvinceMartakert
Country (de jure) Azerbaijan
 • DistrictTartar
Time zoneUTC+4 (AMT)

History

Seysulan was located in the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (Azerbaijan SSR) during the Soviet period. In 1991 the Azerbaijani government dissolved the NKAO and placed Seysulan in the Tartar District. The village came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.

Azerbaijan claimed to have attacked and retaken the village during clashes on 4 April 2016,[2] but the Artsakh Defence Army disputed this claim as disinformation.[3]

References
  1. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  2. "Azerbaijani armed forces liberate settlements, strategic heights".
  3. "NKR Defense Army: Seysulan remains Armenian land, as it used to be before".
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