Her photo coverage of Nagorno-Karabakh's women called The National Womb won her an award.
Earlier, he served as U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional Conflicts and the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
After the closing of the Caucasus-Jolfa railway due to the dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azarbaijan, cargo exchanges through this border dropped sharply.
He also led U.S. efforts to advance peaceful settlements of separatist conflicts of Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Nagorno-Karabakh, common three-letter abbreviation for the country.
Rien Long's trip to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in March 2006 was the subject of a feature-length documentary, "The Long Journey from the NFL to Armenia" (www.globalistfilms.com).
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A trip to Karabakh (Gaseirneba Karabaghshi in Georgian) is a 2005 Georgian film directed by Levan Tutberidze and based on the 1992 book by Aka Morchiladze.
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A group of teenage boys from Tbilisi take a trip to Azerbaijan to buy drugs, and end up fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, when they are captured by Azerbaijani militants, with one subsequently being captured by the Armenians.
Born in Stepanakert, in the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Republic of the Azerbaijan SSR on 22 June 1957, he graduated in 1979 from Yerevan State University with a degree in linguistics.
Their pre-World War I population area was six times larger than that of present-day Armenia, including the eastern regions of Turkey, northern part of Iran, southern part of Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan regions of Azerbaijan.
Since Armenian independence (1991) publications include titles on topics of such current-day issues such as the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Armenian Question and the Armenian diaspora.
On the night from March 21–22, 1920 when the Azeris were celebrating Spring Equinox (Novruz Bayram), the Armenians of Karabakh began to revolt and organized a surprise attack.
Around one-eighth of the population are Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan who were forced to leave their settlements during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Initially Baku Governorate included Karabakh and Zangezur, which were separated in 1868 to create Elisabethpol Governorate.
A big scandal occurred in 2006, when the Armenian champion FC Pyunik refused to play the Azerbaijani team, PFC Neftchi due to the collapse of diplomatic relations between the two countries' governments at that time around the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
At the same time, he was bestowed with the governorship of Erivan, Ganja, and Karabakh.
During the Karabakh conflict, he personally led the operation which captured the village of Bashkend.
In 2006, Mammadov along with Nizami Bahmanov and Havva Mammadova formally founded the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh Social Union in exile, representing the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh in negotiation talks.
During this period, he finished second equal at the Essent tournament, was co-winner of the strong Karabakh 'B' tournament and scored well at the Wijk aan Zee Corus 'C' tourney, earning an upgrade to the 'B' tournament in 2006.
His grand grandfather Kazim-agha was the brother of Panah Ali khan – the founder of and the Karabakh khanate and its capital Shusha.
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Zakir belonged to the clan of Javanshir, which was the ruling clan in the Karabakh khanate.
Stepanakert, capital and the largest city of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, also called Khankendi
A short visit to a war zone in Nagorno-Karabakh evokes memories of both the terrible fate of the city of Agdam and director Khazarian's own personal tragedy years earlier in France.
To gain support from the local Muslims, the Russians appointed a son of Ibrahim Khalil, Mehdigulu Khan Javanshir, as khan of Karabakh.
He was killed in a helicopter which was shot down by Armenian forces near the Karakend village of Khojavend district in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan.
Jafargulu Agha was especially distinguished during the Russo-Persian War on 1804-1813, when he destroyed Iranians under Ordubad and Qafan, in 1806, by commanding horse cavalry of Karabakh.
In 1956 a Karabakh stallion named Zaman, along with an Akhal-Teke named Mele-Kush was presented by the Soviet government to the Queen of Britain, Elizabeth II.
In January 1919, the commander of British forces in the Caspian General William M. Thomson approved Khosrov bek Sultanov's appointment by the Baku government as provisional Governor General of Karabakh and Zangezur (control over Zangezur was ultimately never established), pending a final decision at the Paris Peace Conference.
Lernayin Artsakh FC is an association football club based in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Muhammad was taken to captivity in Karabakh and killed in 1785 during the revolt of Ganja against the foreign rule led by Muhammad's relative Hajji Beg.
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The consortium paid for construction of housing for 100 Azerbaijani families that became refugees and IDPs displaced from their homes during Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The Okhta Trne church at Mokhrenes, Nagorno-Karabakh, supposed to be dating from the fifth to seventh century
Oriental Orthodoxy is a dominant religion in Armenia (94%), the ethnically Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (95%), and in Ethiopia (43%, the total Christian population being 62%), especially in two regions in Ethiopia: Amhara (82%) and Tigray (96%), as well as the chartered city of Addis Ababa (75%).
Strengthening of Panah Ali khan's power faced resistance from other khans (e.g. Khan of Ganca, Khan of Shaki) and from meliks of Nagorno-Karabakh.
After the resignation of President Ayaz Mutallibov on 6 March 1992, no official body regulated Gaziyev's actions, which provoked him to break ceasefire on a number of occasions including artillery bombardment of Nagorno-Karabakh's capital city Stepanakert.
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After Armenians started advancing into Kalbajar, the Popular Front which had been in power since June 1992 issued a statement in which it blamed Rahim Gaziyev and Elchibey's official representative in Nagorno-Karabakh Surat Huseynov for treason and intentional surrender of Shusha in an attempt to restore Mutallibov as President and indulge Russia's geopolitical interests.
On February 10–11, 2006, Kocharyan and Aliyev met in Rambouillet, France to discuss the fundamental principles of a settlement to the conflict, including the withdrawal of troops, formation of international peace keeping troops, and the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.
In 1994 the first Scout gathering was held at the initiative of ARF Artsakh Central Committee.
The region remains one of the most complicated in the post-Soviet area, and comprises three heavily disputed areas – Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic recognised only by three other non-UN states.
After his assassination, Armenian Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan was referred to as the Sparapet in some popular songs, such as Alla Levonyan's "Sparapet", in reference to his military leadership in Nagorno-Karabakh.
It is mostly used for football matches and is the home stadium of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh national football team and Lernayin Artsakh FC of Stepanakert.
Until 1989 there were also Azerbaijins in the town who migrated to Azerbaijan as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
In 1633, he gave shelter to his brother-in-law Daud Khan, the Iranian governor (beglarbeg) of Ganja and Karabakh of Georgian extraction, who had fled Shah Safi’s crackdown on the family of his brother Imam-Quli Khan, the influential governor of Fars, Lar and Bahrain.
Allahverdi’s younger son, Daud Khan, served as governor of Ganja and Karabakh from 1625 to 1630, and had more intimate ties with Georgia, the country of the family’s origin.
Valery Grigoryan was the former chairman for the Azerbaijan Communist Party for the Karabakh Autonomous Oblast committee.
The sculpture, completed in 1967 by Sargis Baghdasaryan, is widely regarded as a symbol of Armenian heritage of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Hajiyev was killed in a helicopter which was shot down by Armenian forces on November 20, 1991 near the Karakend village of Khojavend district in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan along with other high-ranking officials from Azerbaijan, Russia and Kazakhstan.
Armen Artavazdi Abaghian (January 1, 1933, Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh – November 18, 2005, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian-Armenian specialist on nuclear power, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1985), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma International Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky assessed the declaration as "a small advancement in geopolitical sense", which in fact has "a great political significance in the case of Nagorno-Karabakh problem".
It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh (historical Artsakh, present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes), and a part of Syunik.
He was killed in a helicopter which was shot down by Armenian forces on November 20, 1991 near the Karakend village of Khojavend district in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan along with other high-ranking officials from Azerbaijan, Russia and Kazakhstan.
The suffering of your people should somehow be recognized and they will therefore receive justice and the right to live in peace and freedom in their land… It is impossible for the Armenians who live in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) ever again to accept Azeri sovereignty.
Martuni Rayon, an administrative region of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic