Arajamugh (, also ''Arashamud'', ) is a model village in the

Jabrayil District Jabrayil District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the south-west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Khojavend, Fuzuli, Qubadli, Zangilan, and t ...

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. The village had an ethnic

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-majority population prior to the

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. The village had 117 inhabitants in 2015, and the community of Arajamugh included 35 people in the village of ''Araksavan'', 11 km from Arajamugh.

History

The village was founded in 2004 by the Tufenkian Foundation, working in conjunction with the Artsakh Department of Resettlement and Refugee Affairs. As of 2014, the village features 19 houses with 85 inhabitants, including Karabakh Armenians as well as Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan. Arajamugh also features a school and possesses modern amenities - water, power lines, and gravel roads and was 5.7 km from

Jabrayil Jabrayil (, ) is a ghost city in Azerbaijan, nominally the administrative capital of Azerbaijan's Jabrayil District. A town with Azerbaijani majority and Armenians, Armenian plurality at various times during the Russian Empire, Russian imperial ...

. The Tufenkian Foundation has planted 7 hectares of pomegranate orchards in the area around the village, which are now actively cultivated. The village has received support from Artsakh Fund – Eastern US. In 2015, there were renovations of facades for all houses, the village school and the mayor's office. In 2016 a new phase of house construction begun. Arajamugh was part of the

Hadrut Province Hadrut Province () was a province of the Republic of Artsakh. The provincial capital was Hadrut city. The last governor was Valery Gevorkian. The province was captured by the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Ka ...

of the breakaway

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since the

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until its recapture by Azerbaijan on 20 October 2020 during the

References

External links

Article on village expansion - Armenian Weekly (en)

Arajamugh village development and expansion - Tufenkian Foundation website (en)
{{Portal bar, Geography Populated places in Jabrayil District 2004 establishments in Azerbaijan Former Armenian communities in Azerbaijan