The Khojaly massacre, also known as the Khojaly tragedy, was the mass murder of at least 200 and possibly as high as 613 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian armed forces and 366th CIS regiment in the town of Khojaly on 26 February 1992. The death toll claimed by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians, including 106 women and 63 children. The event became the largest massacre in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Shahumyan Province was a province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, de jure part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The capital of the province was Karvachar. Shahumyan Province had 17 communities of which one is considered urban and 16 are rural. Its bordered Martakert Province to the east, Kashatagh Province to the south, Gegharkunik and Vayots Dzor provinces of Armenia to the west and Dashkasan, Goygol and Goranboy districts of Azerbaijan to the north.
The Maraga massacre was the mass murder of Armenian civilians in the village of Maraga (Maragha) by Azerbaijani troops, which had captured the village on April 10, 1992, in the course of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. The villagers, including men, women, children and elderly, were killed indiscriminately and deliberately, their houses were pillaged and burnt; the village was destroyed. Amnesty international reports that over 100 women, children and elderly were tortured and killed and a further 53 were taken hostage, 19 of whom were never returned.
The Battle of Kalbajar, or the Occupation of Kalbajar took place in March and April 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. It resulted in the capture by Armenian military forces of the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan.
Kalbajar is a town and the administrative centre of the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan.
Khojaly is de jure a town in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan; since 1992, it is under the de facto control of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh as part of its Askeran Province, where it was renamed Ivanyan. The village was one of the largest Azerbaijani towns in the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast until the massacre of its population during the First Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Capture of Gushchular and Malibeyli or Malibeyli and Gushchular massacre were incidents in which at least eight, and as high as 50 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians were killed by Armenian irregular armed units in simultaneous attacks on the villages of Malibeyli, Ashaghi Gushchular, and Yukhari Gushchular of Shusha District of Azerbaijan, on February 10–12, 1992 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Farhad Humbatov was the National Hero of Azerbaijan, and the warrior of the Karabakh war.
Rovshan Rzayev was an Azerbaijani officer, and National Hero of Azerbaijan.
Fəxrəddin Şahbazov was a National Hero of Azerbaijan, and warrior during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Yunis Najafov was the National Hero of Azerbaijan, and warrior of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Bakhsheyis Khanahmad oglu Pashayev was the National Hero of Azerbaijan, and warrior of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Janpolad Yagub ogly Rzayev was the National Hero of Azerbaijan, and warrior during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.
Seymour Gahraman oglu Mamedov was the National Hero of Azerbaijan and warrior during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The Ganja ballistic missile attacks comprise four separate ballistic missile attacks on the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan in October 2020, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement is an armistice agreement that ended the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. It was signed on 9 November by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, and ended all hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region from 00:00, 10 November 2020 Moscow time. The president of the self-declared Republic of Artsakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, also agreed to an end of hostilities.
The Khojaly Genocide Day, or the Day of the Khojaly Genocide and National Mourning, is a public holiday in Azerbaijan commemorated on 26 February every year for mourning the civilians killed in the Khojaly massacre, referred to in Azerbaijan as genocide.
The shelling of Alxanlı or the Alxanlı tragedy was shelling of a house in Alxanlı village and municipality in Fuzuli District of Azerbaijan by the Armenian Armed Forces with 82 mm and 120 mm artilleries on 4 July 2017. As a result of the shelling, 51-year-old Azerbaijani woman Sahiba Guliyeva and her 18-month-old granddaughter Zahra Guliyeva were killed, while 52-year-old Sarvinaz Guliyeva was seriously injured, but survived.
Anti-Turkism or Turkophobia, hostility, intolerance, or racism against Turkic people, Turkish culture and Turkic countries, is widespread in Armenia. According to a 2007 survey, 78% of Armenians see Turkey as a threat while 63% of Armenians perceive Azerbaijan as "the biggest enemy of Armenia."
