Lachin
| Laçın/Բերձոր Berdzor | |
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 Laçın/Բերձոր Berdzor
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| Coordinates: 39°38′27″N 46°32′49″E / 39.64083°N 46.54694°E | |
| Country | De jure AzerbaijanDe facto  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
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Lachin Kashatagh |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Arthur Sahakyan |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 1,900 |
| Time zone | UTC (UTC+4) |
Coordinates: 39°38′27″N 46°32′49″E / 39.64083°N 46.54694°E
Lachin (Azerbaijani: Laçın, literally "hawk") or Berdzor (Armenian: Բերձոր), formerly Abdallyar, Datschin) is a town internationally recognized de jure as part of Azerbaijan, but currently controlled by the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Since 1992 the area has been under the control of the NKR, which has renamed the town Berdzor, and acts as the capital of Kashatagh Region. The government of Azerbaijan considers it to be the regional center of its Lachin Rayon. The town and its surrounding region serve as the strategic Lachin corridor connecting the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic with Armenia.
It was originally known as Abdalyar or Abdallyar (after the Turkic Abdal tribe). It was granted town status in 1923 and renamed Lachin (a Turkic first name meaning falcon) in 1926.
In the early 1920s, Vladimir Lenin's letter to Narimanov "had implied that Lachin was to be included in Azerbaijan, but the authorities in Baku and Yerevan were given promises that were inevitably contradictory." The town of Lachin on July 7, 1923 became the administrative center of Kurdistansky Uyezd, often known as Red Kurdistan, before it was moved to Shusha. It was dissolved on April 8, 1929: Kurdish schools and newspapers were closed.
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