Talish, Aghdara
village in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan
Talish (Azerbaijani: Talış, ) is a village in the Aghdara District in Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.
History
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. During the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the side controlling the village has changed on numerous occasions. The village of Talish was occupied by the Armenian army at the beginning of The First Karabakh War, but during the Operation Goranboy of 1992, on June 16, the village was liberated from the Armenian invaders as a result of a joint rapid attack from the Tap Qaraqoyunlu direction by the 1st Goranboy battalion of the National Hero of Azerbaijan, Mohammed Hasanov, and the tank battalion of commander Nazim Bayramov (8 tanks in total). Only 1 soldier of the Azerbaijani Army was wounded during the attack, but in April 11 1994, the attacking Armenian forces reoccupied the village. After the war, the village was administrated as part of the Martakert Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh.
During the 2016 Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes, the village was severely damaged and was temporarily recaptured by Azerbaijani forces after most of its population had been evacuated, but was captured by Armenian forces before the end of the clashes. The village was recaptured by Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Resettlement of the village by Azerbaijanis began in March 2023, with 20 families moving back to Talish.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Talish, Aghdara” as village in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in the Aghdara District of Azerbaijan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1703411. Authority coordinates are 40.377, 46.743. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1989, 1992 and 1994.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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