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Agdam was once a city thriving with 150,000 citizens but crumbled during the 1993 Nagorno Karabakh war despite it never being a site of actual combat. Instead it was occupied by the Armenians who looted and torched the town before driving out its residents. It has since been gutted for building materials, leaving a hollow shell of a town.