Fuzuli is Azerbaijan! Karabakh is Azerbaijan!

 Karabakh is Azerbaijan!

                                  

                       Fuzuli is Azerbaijan!                                                         

 

Fuzuli (Azerbaijani: Füzuli) is a city and the capital of the Fuzuli District of Azerbaijan. The city had a population of 17,090 before its capture by Armenian forces on 23 August 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh war, which resulted in all of the city's original Azerbaijani population being forcefully expelled and the city being completely destroyed. All of the city's around 17,000 inhabitants were forcefully expelled and the city turned into a ghost town. The city was completely destroyed and mined after its capture by Armenian forces. Over 1,100 people mere martyred in the 1990s by Armenian forces. Around 1,500 people were injured in Fuzuli in attacks by Armenian forces, while 155 children lost their parents. Only 20 villages in the Fuzuli province were not occupied. 

Over the years, Armenia has repeatedly fired on Azerbaijani military positions and civilians. Despite all this, Azerbaijan has always tried to resolve the conflict peacefully. But Armenian government started making increasingly populist statements over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Most prominently, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan said in his address at the opening ceremony of the Pan-Armenian games held in Nagorno-Karabakh in August 2019: “Karabakh is Armenia. Period.”

There were also further moves that came across as a provocation for the Azerbaijani side: Announcing plans to make Shusha – a city in Nagorno-Karabakh that Azerbaijanis regard as one of their cultural centers – the capital of the region, and with the same logic, holding the inauguration ceremony of the new president of Nagorno-Karabakh not in the capital of the region, but in Shusha, as well as resettling Armenians from abroad (notably, from Lebanon) to Shusha (and doing this demonstratively by broadcasting it on TV) and building a new road from Armenia to Jabrayil – one of the occupied districts around Nagorno-Karabakh. 

However, neither the Azerbaijani people nor the Azerbaijani state remained silent about this historical injustice. As a result of Armenia's shelling of Azerbaijani civilians and military facilities on September 27, the Azerbaijani government launched a counterattack.

On October 17, 2020, most of the occupied portion of the district including the capital Füzüli was announced to have been recaptured by Azerbaijan during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

On October 20, 2020, the Government of Azerbaijan announced the recapture of Dordchinar, Kurdlar, Yukhari Abdurrahmanli, Garghabazar, Ashaghi Veysalli, Yukhari Aybasanli villages of the Füzuli rayon from Armenian forces. Six more villages (Gejagozlu, Ashaghi Seyidahmadli, Zargar, Mollavali, Yukhari Rafadinli, Ashaghi Rafadinli) of the district were reportedly recaptured between October 21–22, according to Azerbaijani sources.

Fuzuli is the ancient land of Azerbaijan. The city was known as Qarabulaq until 1827 when it was renamed to Karyagino in honour of colonel Pavel Karyagin. It was administrated as part of Dzhebrail Uyezd during the Russian Empire

The town was renamed to Füzuli in honour of the poet Fuzuli in 1959. During the Soviet years, the city was the administrative centre of the Füzuli raion of Azerbaijan SSR. According to the 1979 census, 13,091 people lived in the city, of which 87% were Azerbaijanis and 7.4% were Russians and Ukrainians. Population rose to 17,090 in 1989.

At different times in the territory of Fuzuli region, researches were carried out in Garakopektepe, Garabulag mounds, Gunashtapa, Guruchay shores and other places, it was proved that Azerbaijan has ancient roots. In the summer of 1968, archaeologist-scientist Mammadali Huseynov discovered the bones of the lower jaw of a preneanderthal-Azykhantrop man. It was found in Azykh cave, 15 km from the district center. This monument, which is a great achievement of Azerbaijani archeological science, revealed the existence of the ancient Paleolithic period in the Fizuli region of Karabakh.

 

There were a number of architectural monuments built under the influence of Ajami school of architecture in Fuzuli region. Unfortunately, Ahmadalilar or Argali tomb (end of XIII century), Babi tomb (1273), Mirali tomb built of smooth stone in Ashagi Veysalli village (XV century), Hajigiyasaddin mosque in Gargabazar village (1682), Caravanserai (1684), mosque in Gochahmedli village (XVIII century), Haji Alakbar mosque in Fizuli (XIX century), "Mashadi Habib" bath (XIX century), ancient monuments of horse and ram figures carved from stone near Merdinli village (XVIII-XIX centuries) centuries) and so on. Such monuments of historical significance were savagely vandalized by Armenians, destroyed and burned.

Today, all the people of Azerbaijan feel happy and pride in the liberation of our lands, which have an ancient cultural and historical heritage, like Fuzuli. On the instructions of President Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani army has proved to the world that "Fuzuli is Azerbaijan!" and "Karabakh is Azerbaijan!"