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Nagorny Karabakh

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  • proper noun Alternative name of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Etymologies

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From Russian нагорный (nagórnyj, "highland, mountainous") + Карабах (Karabáx, "Karabakh").

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  • Since Armenia's border with Azerbaijan is also closed - as a result of the dispute over Nagorny Karabakh, which is ruled by Armenians as a self-proclaimed independent state - the potential opening of the Turkish border is hugely significant for Armenia.

    Institute for War & Peace Reporting 2009

  • Foreign ministry spokesman Khazar Ibragim said that it reaffirmed the Azerbaijani position that the Nagorny Karabakh was a conflict between two states, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and that respect for Azerbaijan's territorial integrity was reaffirmed by the document's reference to international law.

    Institute for War & Peace Reporting: 2008

  • As Thomas de Waal reminds us in "Black Garden," the "frozen conflict" between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorny Karabakh remains "a tiny knot at the center of a big international security tangle" nearly fifteen years after it began.

    Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia 2010

  • Nagorny Karabakh is a piece of territory that Armenia and Azerbaijan fought over during the early 1990s.

    Yasaman 2010

  • As a Peace Corps. volunteer, I was not permitted to travel to Nagorny Karabakh.

    Yasaman 2010

  • As Thomas de Waal reminds us in "Black Garden," the "frozen conflict" between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorny Karabakh remains "a tiny knot at the center of a big international security tangle" nearly fifteen years after it began.

    Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia 2010

  • Ashot Beglarian is a freelance journalist in Nagorny Karabakh.

    Azerbaijan: Hailstorms Add to Karabakh���s Woes IWPR 2008

  • Nagorny Karabakh had barely recovered from the winter crisis when a severe storm caused yet more damage on March 22.

    Azerbaijan: Hailstorms Add to Karabakh���s Woes IWPR 2008

  • An outbreak of African swine fever late last year resulted in the death of most pigs in Nagorny Karabakh.

    Azerbaijan: Hailstorms Add to Karabakh���s Woes IWPR 2008

  • This was only the latest in a series of disasters that have hit Nagorny Karabakh, a de facto independent republic in the southern Caucausus, surrounded entirely by Azerbaijan just south of Russia, and drained the resources of the current government, formed last autumn.

    Azerbaijan: Hailstorms Add to Karabakh���s Woes IWPR 2008

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