Nagorno-Karabagh Republic

Discussion 2 posts |  Only members can post. Join?

About Nagorno-Karabagh Republic

Welcome to the Nagorno-Karabagh Republic group. Please feel free to post all photos from Nagorno-Karabagh, and also consider joining worldwidewandering - a travel atlas, where you can not only add photos, but also post your Nagorno-Karabakh pictures and comments to the Nagorno-Karabakh thread.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- from wikipedia

Capital: Stepanakert
Languages: Armenian
Ethnic Groups: Armenian 95%, Azeri, Russian, Assyrian, Greek, and Kurd
Religions: Christian (Armenian Apostolic Church, Orthodox Christian, Evangelical Christian), Judaism
Monetary Unit: Dram (Armenian) (AMD)




Nagorno-Karabakh is a de facto independent republic in the South Caucasus, officially part of the Republic of Azerbaijan, about 270 kilometres (170 miles) west of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, and very close to the border with Armenia.

The predominantly Armenian region became a source of dispute between the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan when both countries gained independence from the Russian Empire in 1918. After the Soviet Union expanded into the South Caucasus, it established the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) within the Azerbaijan SSR in 1923. On December 10, 1991, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, a referendum held in the NKAO and the neighboring district of Shahumian resulted in a declaration of independence from Azerbaijan as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), which remains unrecognized by any international organization or country, including Armenia.

In the final years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the region was again a source of dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, culminating in the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Since the end of the war in 1994, most of Nagorno-Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan around it remain under Armenian military control. Since then, the parties have been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group...more
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On flickr:
• Azerbaijan
• Central Asia Live
• Central Asia & The Trans-Caucasus
• Caucasus Mountains
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Other Forums:
• Lonely Planet Thorntree: Azerbaijan