Binədərəsi

Binedarasi (Azerbaijani: Binədərəsi) or Banadzor (Armenian: Բանաձոր) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.

[1] During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Hadrut District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was destroyed and depopulated along with 16 other settlements in the Hadrut and Shusha districts as part of Operation Ring in 1991.

[4] After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Hadrut Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh.