{"id":22640,"date":"2025-03-15T06:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22640"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:33:28","slug":"nagorno-karabakh-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nagorno-karabakh-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagorno-Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nagorno-Karabakh Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a peace agreement set to end nearly four decades of conflict between over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n<h2>About Nagorno-Karabakh<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nagorno-Karabakh, referred to as <strong>Artsakh<\/strong> by Armenians, is a landlocked, mountainous region in the South Caucasus.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The general region includes the northeastern flank of the <strong>Karabakh Range<\/strong> of the Lesser Caucasus and extends from the crest line of the range to the margin of the <strong>Kura Rive<\/strong>r lowland at its foot.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s environments vary from <strong>steppe<\/strong> on the Kura lowland through <strong>dense forest<\/strong> of oak, hornbeam, and <strong>beech<\/strong> on the lower mountain slopes to birchwood and alpine meadows higher up.<\/li>\n<li>Following the <strong>Russian Empire&#8217;s collapse<\/strong> in 1917, both Armenia and Azerbaijan asserted claims over this area, leading to enduring tensions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Internationally recognized as <strong>part of Azerbaijan<\/strong>, until recently much of it was governed by the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, also known as the Republic of Artsakh.<\/li>\n<li>Historically, the region&#8217;s population was predominantly ethnic Armenian, and it operated a self-established government closely aligned with Armenia, though lacking official recognition from Armenia or other United Nations member states.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Timeline<\/h2>\n<p>The conflict has roots dating back well over a century into competition between Christian Armenian and Muslim Turkic and Persian influences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1920s: <\/strong>After World War I and the Bolshevik revolution, Soviet rulers created the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region within Azerbaijan, with an ethnic Armenian majority.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991: <\/strong>As the Soviet Union collapsed, Karabakh declared independence, and tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis led to full-scale war.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992-94: <\/strong>The First Karabakh War resulted in up to 30,000 deaths. Armenians took control of the region and occupied surrounding Azerbaijani land, creating a buffer zone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017: <\/strong>A referendum in Karabakh changed the government to a fully presidential system and renamed the region from Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to Republic of Artsakh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020: <\/strong>The Second Karabakh War saw Azerbaijan reclaiming territory around Karabakh, with 3,000 Azerbaijani and 4,000 Armenian soldiers killed in six weeks of fighting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2022: <\/strong>Clashes broke out between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, with 100 Armenian and 70 Azerbaijani soldiers killed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024: <\/strong>Nagorno-Karabakh was officially dissolved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nagorno-Karabakh FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>Which country is Nagorno-Karabakh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>Nagorno-Karabakh is a region internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>What is the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>The conflict revolves around ethnic and territorial disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with Armenians seeking independence or unification with Armenia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>Who currently controls Nagorno-Karabakh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>Azerbaijan regained full control of Nagorno-Karabakh following a military offensive in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ca92b871-dd65-4980-af01-aaf0f3e38650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagorno-Karabakh, referred to as Artsakh by Armenians, is a landlocked, mountainous region in the South Caucasus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}