History of Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh is a region of West Asia located in the southern part of the Lesser Caucasus range, at the eastern edge of the Armenian Highlands, encompassing the highland part of the wider geographical region known as Karabakh. Under Russian and Soviet rule, the region came to be known as Nagorno-Karabakh, meaning "Mountainous Karabakh" in Russian. The name Karabakh itself (derived from Persian and Turkic and meaning "black vineyard") is first encountered in Georgian and Persian sources from the 13th and 14th centuries and refers to lowlands between the Kura and Aras rivers and the adjacent mountainous territory.

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