Laçin is a district of Çorum Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is located at 29 km from the city of Çorum. It covers an area of 214 km², and the elevation is 720 m. Population is about 9,425 of which 2,153 live in the town of Laçin, and the rest in the surrounding villages (2000 census). The mayor is Ünal Gevşek (MHP).
The climate has features of both the dry Central Anatolian plain and the Black Sea coast; winters are cold, summers are hot and dry, with most rainfall in spring. The district is partially mountainous and wooded. Being so close to the city of Çorum the district has little economic strength of its own; people live on growing grains, chickpeas and other crops.
The town of Laçin provides the district with high schools, a hospital and other basic amenities.
Coordinates: 39°38′27″N 46°32′49″E / 39.64083°N 46.54694°E / 39.64083; 46.54694
Lachin (Azerbaijani: Laçın (Azeri for "hawk"), Armenian: Բերձոր Berdzor; also Abdallyar, Datschin) or Berdzor is a town internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but currently controlled by the de facto independent unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Since 1992 the area has been under the control of NKR, which has renamed the town Berdzor, and acts as the capital of Kashatagh Province. The government of Azerbaijan considers it to be the regional center of its Lachin Rayon. The town and its surrounding region serve as the strategic Lachin corridor connecting the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic with Armenia.
It was originally known as Abdalyar or Abdallyar (after the Turkic Abdal tribe). It was granted town status in 1923 and renamed Lachin (a Turkic first name meaning falcon) in 1926.
In the early 1920s, Vladimir Lenin's letter to Narimanov "had implied that Lachin was to be included in Azerbaijan, but the authorities in Baku and Yerevan were given promises that were inevitably contradictory." The town of Lachin on July 7, 1923 became the administrative center of Kurdistansky Uyezd, often known as Red Kurdistan, before it was moved to Shusha. It was dissolved on April 8, 1929: Kurdish schools and newspapers were closed. According to Bushkapin, official statistics from 1931 say that there were 3,322 Kurdish speakers in Lachin. These figures did not include those individuals who did not speak Kurdish but nonetheless defined themselves as Kurds. Most of the Kurdish population in Lachin were Shi'a Muslims and there was a Kurdish minority in the area before the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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