- For the republic, see
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
.
Nagorno-Karabakh
(
Armenie
:
?????
, transliteratit:
Arts’akh
, pronouncit ???ts??χ,
Azerbaijani
:
Da?lıq Qaraba?
) is a
landlockit
region in the
Sooth Caucasus
, lying atween
Lower Karabakh
an
Zangezur
an coverin the sootheastren range o the
Lesser Caucasus
muntains. The region is maistly muntainous an forestit an haes an aurie o 4,400 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi).
Maist o the region is governed bi the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
, an
unrecognized
,
de facto
independent state establisht on the basis o the
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
athin the
Azerbaijan SSR
o the
Soviet Union
. The territory is internaitionally recognized as pairt o
Azerbaijan
, although it haes no exercised pouer ower maist o the region syne 1991. Syne the end o the
Nagorno-Karabakh War
in 1994, representatives o the governments o
Armenie
an Azerbaijan hae been hauldin peace tauks mediatit bi the
OSCE Minsk Group
on the region's status.
The wird
Nagorno-
is a
Roushie
attributive adjective
, derived frae the adjective
nagorny
(
нагорный
), which means "highland". The
Azerbaijani
name o the region includes similar adjectives "da?lıq" (muntainous) or "yuxarı" (upper). Such wirds are no uised in
Armenian
name, but appeared in the offeecial name o the region durin the
Soviet
era as
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
. Ither leids apply their awn wirdin for
muntainous
,
upper
, or
hieland
; for example, the offeecial name uised bi the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
in Fraunce is
Haut-Karabakh
, meanin "Upper Karabakh".
The wird
Karabakh
is generally held tae oreeginate frae
Turkic
an
Persian
, an literally means "black garden".
[1]
[2]
The name first appears in
Georgian
an Persian sources o the 13t an 14t centuries.
[2]
Karabagh
is an acceptable alternate spelling of
Karabakh
, and also denotes a kind of patterned
rug
originally produced in the area.
[3]
In an alternative theory proposed bi
Bagrat Ulubabyan
the name Karabakh haes a Turkic-Armenian oreegin, meanin "Greater Baghk" (
Armenie
:
??? ????
), a reference tae Ktish-Baghk (later:
Dizak
), ane o the principalities o Artsakh unner the rule o the Aranshahik dynasty, which held the throne o the Kinrick o Syunik in the 11t?13t centuries an crieed itsel the "Kinrick o Baghk".
[4]
The names for the region in the various local leids aw translate tae "muntainous Karabakh", or "muntainous black garden":
Nagorno-Karabakh is aften referred tae bi the
Armenians
livin in the aurie as
Artsakh
(Armenian:
?????
), designatin the 10t province o the auncient
Kinrick o Armenie
. In
Urartian
inscriptions (9t?7t centuries BC), the name
Urtekhini
is uised for the region.
[5]
Auncient Greek
sources cawed the aurie
Orkhistene
.
[6]
- ↑
The BBC World News.
Regions and territories: Nagorno-Karabakh
,
BBC News Online
. Last updated October 3, 2007. Retrieved November 21, 2007.
- ↑
a
b
(in Armenie)
Ulubabyan, Bagrat.
Karabagh
(???????). The
Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia
, vol. vii, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1981 p. 26
- ↑
C. G. Ellis, "Oriental Carpets", 1988. p133.
- ↑
Robert H. Hewsen
,
Armenia: a Historical Atlas.
University of Chicago Press
, 2001, pp. 119?120.
- ↑
PanArmenian Network.
Artsakh: From Ancient Time to 1918
Archived
2009-08-04 at the
Wayback Machine
. PanArmenian.net. June 9, 2003. Retrieved November 21, 2007.
- ↑
Strabo
(ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) .
Geography
. The Perseus Digital Library. 11.14.4. Retrieved November 21, 2007.