History
Ordubad region was a part of the khanates of Erivan and Nakhichevan, which were dependencies of Persia, with Ordubad forming the main town of the district of Aza-Jeran in the eastern part of the khanate of Nakhichevan. After the Russo-Persian War and the Turkmanchay Treaty of 1828, the region was ceded to Imperial Russia, and became a part of Nakhichevan uyezd of Erivan Governorate. Since 1921 Ordubad was a part of Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which in 1990 became the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic within the Azerbaijan Republic.
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