Qarğabazar, Fuzuli
# Qarğabazar, Fuzuli

Qarğabazar (Garghabazar) is a village in the Fuzuli District of Azerbaijan. It is located in the southern part of Fuzuli city, at the foot of Ilanlidag Mountain (559,7 m), at a height of 460 meters.

## History

The village was occupied by Armenian forces in 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and all of its Azerbaijani inhabitants were forced out. Since 1993, the village was administrated as part of Hadrut Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh and renamed Ijevanatun (Իջեւանատուն). On 20 October 2020 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced that the village had been recaptured.

## Notable sites

* Caravanserai built in 1681.
* Giyas ad-Din Mosque, built in the 17th century.
* There was a Russo-Tatar (Russo-Azerbaijani) primary school in the village during the pre-revolutionary period.

## Notable people

* Gubad Gasimov, music expert, Honorary Art Worker of Azerbaijan
* Bahadur Eyvazov, dermatologist, Honorary Doctor and Honored Science Worker of Azerbaijan
* Sardar Sardarov, architect, Honorary Architect of Azerbaijan
* Bunyad Sardarov (1889–1919), revolutionary
