evidence: Four of the eight Azerbaijani villages—i.e., Baghanis Ayrim, Kheyrimli, Gizilhajili, and Ashagi Askipara—are border villages, belonging to the Gazakh district. Four other villages are exclaves within Armenia. These include Karki in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and three villages of the Gazakh district located in two exclaves: the Sofulu exclave, consisting of two villages—i.e., Sofulu and Barkhudarli—and the Yukhari Askipara exclave.1(see Maps 1 and 2, below.) [...] Baghanis Ayrim was the second territory of Azerbaijan to be captured by the Armenian militia on 24 March 1990, and the logic was similar. The border village was on the way to another strategic road in Armenia, namely the M16/H26 highway from Yerevan to Tbilisi. During March-June 1992, with the outbreak of full-scale hostilities, Armenia occupied the border villages of Kheyrimli, Gizilhajili, and Ashagi Askipara and the exclave villages of Barkhudarli, Sofulu, and Yukhari Askipara. A common feature of these now defunct and depopulated villages is that they are situated along or near the M16/H26 highway, which crisscrosses de jure Azerbaijani territory five times.