Agdam

Agdam is a city in . It was abandoned during the first Nagorno-Karabakh war in the 1990s and long remained a ghost town. In the 2020s, Azerbaijan undertook an ambitious project to rebuild and resettle the city.
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  • Type: Town with 820 residents
  • Description: city in Azerbaijan, administrative center of the Aghdam District
  • Also known as: “Aghdam”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Agdam Mosque and Imarat cemetery.

Mosque
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The Aghdam Mosque or Juma Mosque is a Shia , located in the ghost town of Aghdam, . Completed in the 1870s, the mosque was desecrated during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and restored following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Cemetery
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The Imarat Garvand cemetery, or simply as the is a and a complex located in Aghdam, Azerbaijan. It contains the graves of some of the Azerbaijani and Turkic nobility of the Karabakh Khanate.

Agdam

Latitude
39.9932° or 39° 59′ 36″ north
Longitude
46.9305° or 46° 55′ 50″ east
Population
820
Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)
Open location code
8HF8XWVJ+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1434761991
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
148619
Wiki­data ID
Q540844
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Armenian—“Agdam” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አግዳም”
  • Arabic: “آغدام”
  • Armenian: “Aghdam”
  • Armenian: “Akn”
  • Armenian: “Ակն”
  • Armenian: “Ակնա”
  • Armenian: “Աղդամ”
  • Asturian: “Aghdam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağdam şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağdam”
  • Bashkir: “Агдам”
  • Belarusian: “Агдам”
  • Bengali: “আগদাম”
  • Breton: “Ağdam”
  • Bulgarian: “Агдам”
  • Catalan: “Ağdam”
  • Cebuano: “Ağdam”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاغدام”
  • Chechen: “Агдам (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Агдам”
  • Chinese: “阿格达姆”
  • Chinese: “阿格達姆”
  • Croatian: “Agdam”
  • Czech: “Agdam”
  • Dutch: “Ağdam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اغدم”
  • Estonian: “Ağdam”
  • Finnish: “Ağdam”
  • French: “Agdam”
  • Georgian: “აღდამი”
  • German: “Ağdam (Stadt)”
  • German: “Agdam”
  • German: “Ağdam”
  • Greek: “Άγκνταμ”
  • Greek: “Άγνταμ”
  • Hausa: “Agdam”
  • Hebrew: “אגדאם”
  • Hindi: “अगदम”
  • Hungarian: “Ağdam”
  • Indonesian: “Agdam”
  • Italian: “Ağdam”
  • Japanese: “アグダム”
  • Javanese: “Agdam”
  • Kazakh: “Ағдам”
  • Kirghiz: “Ағдам”
  • Korean: “아그담”
  • Kurdish: “Axdam”
  • Latvian: “Agdama”
  • Lithuanian: “Agdamas”
  • Malay: “Agdam”
  • Maltese: “Agdam”
  • Maltese: “Ağdam”
  • Minangkabau: “Agdam”
  • Mingrelian: “აღდამი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ağdam”
  • Norwegian: “Ağdam”
  • Oromo: “Agdam”
  • Ossetian: “Агдам”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਗਦਾਮ”
  • Persian: “آغ‌دام”
  • Persian: “آغدام”
  • Polish: “Agdam”
  • Polish: “Ağdam”
  • Portuguese: “Agdam”
  • Pushto: “اگدام”
  • Romanian: “Ağdam”
  • Russia Buriat: “Агдам”
  • Russian: “Агдам”
  • Somali: “Agdam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آغدام”
  • Spanish: “Agdam”
  • Spanish: “Ağdam”
  • Swahili: “Agdam”
  • Swedish: “Ağdam”
  • Swedish: “Aghdam”
  • Tajik: “Ағдом”
  • Tajik: “Оқдом”
  • Tatar: “Ағдам”
  • Turkish: “Ağdam”
  • Turkmen: “Agdam”
  • Ukrainian: “Агдам”
  • Ukrainian: “Аґдам”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ağdam”
  • Urdu: “آق دام”
  • Uzbek: “Ag‘dam”
  • Uzbek: “Agʻdam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Agdam”
  • Western Armenian: “Աղտամ”

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