• All the information included to the

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• All the information included to the 
presentation are based on the facts and 
research results of third parties
• Relevant references could be found at the end 
of each page.
By Elchin Ibrahimov

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http://theyounggeorgians.wordpress.com/about/
http://mfa.gov.az/

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Armenia
Capital: Yerevan
Independence from the
Soviet Union 
Declared: 
23 August 1990
Total area: 29,743 km
2
Population: 3,262,000 

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Azerbaijan
Capital: Baku
Independence from the
Soviet Union 
Declared: 
30 August 1991
Total area: 86,600 km
2
Population: 9,000,000 

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Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh
The word
Nagorno
is derived from the Russian adjective nagorny (нагорный), which 
means "highland". 
The word
Karabakh
is generally held to originate from Turkic and Persian, and literally 
means "black garden“.
Total area : 4,400 km
2
Population (1989): 190.000
Armenians: 77 %
Azerbaijani: 21.5%
Russian: 1 %
Other nationalities: 0.5%

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Nagorno-Karabakh Republic governs the region, an unrecognized, de facto independent 
state established on the basis of the Azerbaijan territory.
The territory is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, although it has not 
exercised power over most of the region since 1991. 
Since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, representatives of the governments 
of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk 
Group on the region's status.
Currently…..
Let’s go back to the history of
Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Of course both sides claim that historically NK was 
part of their country:
• Armenian orientated sources assume that 
Nagorno-Karabakh was part of the early 
Armenia as the province of Arzakh.
• In contrast, Azerbaijani sources place the 
province of Arzakh within the former 
Caucasian Albania.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Legal Analysis By Heiko Krüger

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• “Right up until the late Middle Ages Karabakh
is said to have been home to the Caucasian 
Albanians.”
• “Until this time the territory could not be 
clearly classified ethnically as belonging to 
either the Armenian or the Azerbaijani cultural 
area.”
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Legal Analysis By Heiko Krüger

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• “Karabakh, like Erivan, was considered to be a 
territory dominated by the Azerbaijanis from the 
16th to the 19th centuries”
• “Not even the territory of modern Armenia 
could be regarded as being under Armenian rule 
at that time.”
• “In the middle of the 18th century the Karabakh
khanate was established under the Azerbaijani 
Panah-Ali khan Javanshir.”