Güləbird () is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan.

History

The village was located in the

Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh The Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh were areas of Azerbaijan, situated outside the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), which were occupied by the ethnic Armenian military forces of the breakaway Republi ...

, coming under the control of ethnic Armenian forces in August 1993 during the

First Nagorno-Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, referred to in Armenia as the Artsakh Liberation War ( hy, Արցախյան ազատամարտ, Artsakhyan azatamart) was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in th ...

. The village subsequently became part of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province, referred to as Tsaghkaberd ( hy, Ծաղկաբերդ, ). It was seized by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020 during the Lachin offensive in the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, the surrounding territories. It was a major escalation of ...

Economy

In 2021, the Gulebird hydroelectric power plant was declared reopened. It is a small 8 MW power plant.

Historical heritage sites

Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a cave, the 12th/13th-century rock-cut church of ''Kronk'' ( hy, Քրոնք), and the 17th/18th-century bridge of ''Kotrats'' ( hy, Կոտրած).

Demographics

The village had 271 inhabitants in 2005, and 221 inhabitants in 2015.

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