Karabakh
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Karabakh (Azerbaijani: Qarabağ, Armenian: Ղարաբաղ) is a region in Azerbaijan, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to lowlands between the two rivers of Kura and Aras. The highland part of the region became known as Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijani: Dağlıq Qarabağ, Armenian: Լեռնային Ղարաբաղ) following the establishment of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in the Azerbaijan SSR by the Soviet Union in 1923, and declared independence in 1991 as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic that remains unrecognized worldwide. Portions of lowland Karabakh in Azerbaijan have been controlled by Armenian forces since the Nagorno-Karabakh War ended in 1993[1].
The word "Karabakh" originated from Turkic and Persian, literally meaning "black garden", respectively.[2] The name first appears in Georgian and Persian sources in the 13th and 14th centuries.[3]
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- ^ US State Department - 1993 UN Security Council Resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh
- ^ BBC News — Regions and territories: Nagorno-Karabakh
- ^ (Armenian) Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia, two historic regions of Armenia and Caucasian Albania.<ref>Great Soviet Encyclopedia, "NKAO, Historial Survey", 3rd edition, translated into English, New York: Macmillan Inc., 1973</li></ol></ref>
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