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Map highlighting the location of Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan, with surrounding countries Armenia, Georgia, Iran, and Russia also shown. The map includes major cities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh and features an inset for regional context near the Caspian Sea. Gandzasar Monastery, an Armenian stone church complex with a central dome, stands on a grassy hill surrounded by gravestones in Nagorno-Karabakh near the village of Vank.
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Map highlighting the location of Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan, with surrounding countries Armenia, Georgia, Iran, and Russia also shown. The map includes major cities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh and features an inset for regional context near the Caspian Sea.
Nagorno-Karabakh Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

Nagorno-Karabakh

region, Azerbaijan
Also known as: Artsakh, Dağlıq Qarabağ, Nagorno-Karabach
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Nagorno-Karabakh, region of southwestern Azerbaijan. The name is also used to refer to an autonomous oblast (province) of the former Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (S.S.R.), whose population was predominantly Armenian, and to the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-declared country whose independence from 1992 to 2023 was not internationally recognized. The old autonomous region occupied an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 square km), while the forces of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh occupied some...

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