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unusual facts about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict



A Trip to Karabakh

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.

Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Her photo coverage of Nagorno-Karabakh's women called The National Womb won her an award.

Arkadi Ghukasyan

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.

Armen Abaghian

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.

Armenian diaspora

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.

Armenian Encyclopedia

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.

Astrakhan Declaration

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".

Ayrum

Around one-eighth of the population are Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan who were forced to leave their settlements during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

B. Lynn Pascoe

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.

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

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.

Elman Mammadov

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.

Hankendi

Stepanakert, capital and the largest city of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, also called Khankendi

I Love the Sound of the Kalachnikov It Reminds Me of Tchaikovsky


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.

Ismat Gayibov

He was killed in a helicopter which was shot down by Armenian forces near the Karakend village of Khojavend district in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan.

Jolfa

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.

Karabakh

It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh (historical Artsakh, present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes), and a part of Syunik.

Lernayin Artsakh FC

Lernayin Artsakh FC is an association football club based in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Mahammad Asadov

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.

Maraga Massacre

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

Martuni Rayon, an administrative region of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

Matthew Bryza

He also led U.S. efforts to advance peaceful settlements of separatist conflicts of Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army

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NKO

Nagorno-Karabakh, common three-letter abbreviation for the country.

North Absheron Operating Company

The consortium paid for construction of housing for 100 Azerbaijani families that became refugees and IDPs displaced from their homes during Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Okhta

The Okhta Trne church at Mokhrenes, Nagorno-Karabakh, supposed to be dating from the fifth to seventh century

Oriental Orthodoxy

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%).

Panah Ali Khan

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.

Rahim Gaziyev

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.

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.

Rien Long

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).

Robert Kocharyan

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.

Social Democrat Hunchakian Party

In the early 1990s, the party took part in the self-defense of Zangezur (Paramaz battalion) and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (Jirair-Mourad battalion led by Gevorg Guzelian).

South Caucasus

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.

Sparapet

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.

Stepanakert Stadium

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.

Tashir

Until 1989 there were also Azerbaijins in the town who migrated to Azerbaijan as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

We Are Our Mountains

The sculpture, completed in 1967 by Sargis Baghdasaryan, is widely regarded as a symbol of Armenian heritage of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Zulfi Hajiyev

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.


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