Hadrut (town)

39.51666666666747.03Koordinaten: 39 ° 31 'N, 47 ° 2' O

Hadrut (Armenian Հադրութ, also Hadrout or Gadrut ) is a town in the district Xocavənd in Azerbaijan. The town is occupied since the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992 by the Armenian army and administered by the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. In this it is the capital of the province of Hadrut. Previously, she was part of the Autonomous Region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been dissolved in 1991 by the Azerbaijani government.

The city had 2005 2.770 inhabitants according Karabakh information. In the town there is a museum of local history and culture.