Karabakh
Sign in to saveKarabakh ( ; ) is a geographic region in southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and Aras. It is divided into three regions: Highland Karabakh, Lowland Karabakh (the steppes between the Kura and Aras rivers), and the eastern slopes of the Zangezur Mountains (roughly Syunik and Kalbajar–Lachin).
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- Karabakh
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- Region
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- A landscape in Nagorno-Karabakh - a view of the municipality of Karmir Shuka
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- "Black garden"
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- Map of Karabakh within modern borders.
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- Azerbaijan and Armenia
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23 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography
- History
- Antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Early Modern Age
- Modern era
- Independence and Soviet era
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Demographics
- Toponyms
- Overlapping Armenian and Turkic toponymic landscape
- Tsarist changes
- Soviet changes
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict changes
- Karabakh dialect
- Flora
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
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Karabakh ( ; ) is a geographic region in southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and Aras. It is divided into three regions: Highland Karabakh, Lowland Karabakh (the steppes between the Kura and Aras rivers), and the eastern slopes of the Zangezur Mountains (roughly Syunik and Kalbajar–Lachin).
== Etymology == The name , transliterated from the Russian version of the word , derives from the Azerbaijani , which is generally believed to be a compound of the Turkic word kara (black) and the Iranian word bagh (garden), literally meaning "black garden." However, there are some other hypotheses.