Destruction of Agulis
Christmas-Eve attack on the formerly Armenian-majority town of Agulis (Aylis) in southern Nakhichevan by Azerbaijani irregulars and local Muslim villagers. Most of the surviving Armenian inhabitants were killed; the St Thomas Monastery was damaged. The Armenian novelist Akram Aylisli's 2012 novella Stone Dreams centred on this event and was banned and burned in Azerbaijan.
| Casualties | 400 1.5k |
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Baseline context
Christmas-Eve attack on the formerly Armenian-majority town of Agulis (Aylis) in southern Nakhichevan by Azerbaijani irregulars and local Muslim villagers. Most of the surviving Armenian inhabitants were killed; the St Thomas Monastery was damaged. The Armenian novelist Akram Aylisli's 2012 novella Stone Dreams centred on this event and was banned and burned in Azerbaijan. The atlas classifies this as a massacre event in 1919 with major severity. It is flagged as an atrocity record in the database.
The event is linked to Nakhichevan, Agulis. Seeded ranges record casualties at 400 to 1,500 and displacement at not specified to not specified.
The seeded citation trail currently points to Thomas de Waal, Richard G. Hovannisian.
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