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Nagorno-Karabakh (/ n ə ˌ ɡ ɔːr n oʊ k ər ə ˈ b ɑː k / ⓘ, nə-GOR-noh kər-ə-BAHK; [3] lit. ' Upper Karabakh ') is a region in Azerbaijan, covering the southeastern stretch of the Lesser Caucasus mountain range.
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, also known as the Artsakh Liberation War in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, was an armed conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the ...
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories. It was a major escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region , involving Azerbaijan , Armenia and the self-declared Armenian breakaway state of Artsakh .
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War [d] was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan with support from Turkey.
The region of Nagorno-Karabakh, located between the Kura and Araxes rivers, was once occupied by the people known to modern archaeologists as the Kura-Araxes.Little is known about the ancient history of the region, primarily because of a scarcity of historical sources.
The Karabakh movement for independence was met with a series of pogroms and forced deportations of Armenians across Azerbaijan, leading to the outbreak of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Azerbaijan severed transport and economic links between Armenia and Azerbaijan and between Artsakh and Armenia.
First Nagorno-Karabakh war (1988–1994) Second Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020) 2008 Mardakert clashes; 2010 Mardakert clashes; 2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes; 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes; 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes; 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes; 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in ...
An armistice was established by a tripartite ceasefire agreement on 10 November, resulting in Armenia and Artsakh ceding the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh as well as one-third of Nagorno-Karabakh itself to Azerbaijan [42] Ceasefire violations in Nagorno-Karabakh and on the Armenian–Azerbaijani border occurred following the 2020 war ...