Aghdam District (Azerbaijani: Ağdam rayonu) is one of the 66 administrative divisions of Azerbaijan.

[5] According to this version, Turkic-speaking tribes living in this region in the distant past built small fortresses mainly to defend themselves.

In the first half of the 18th century, the founder of the Karabakh khanate, Panahali khan, ordered that a white stone building be built for him in this city.

[7] It was occupied by the Artsakh Defense Army with the support of the Armenian Armed Forces on 23 July 1993, with the settlement being completely destroyed and the population of the city being expelled to the east, into Azerbaijan.

[8] Agdam, located in the buffer zone between the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, then looked like a ghost town.

[a][13] Internally displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding occupied regions were moved to Aghdam district from tent settlements around the country.