Yuxarı Əskipara
Ghost town · Azerbaijan
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 279
- Coordinates
- 41.064, 45.025
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It is surrounded by Armenia's Tavush Province and has been occupied by Armenia since 1992, when it was captured and destroyed by Armenian troops in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
History
Yukhari Askipara, also known as Verin Voskepar, is an abandoned village in an exclave of the Gazakh District of Azerbaijan. It is surrounded by Armenia's Tavush Province and has been occupied by Armenia since 1992, when it was captured and destroyed by Armenian troops in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Armenia agreed to return control over Yukhari Askipara and six other villages to Azerbaijan as part of the ceasefire agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, but this has yet to be done.