Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast

Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast

English

Proper noun

Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast

1. Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union created in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1923 and lasting until 1991. Populated overwhelmingly by Armenians it broke away from Azerbaijan and after a bloody full-scale war gained de facto independence as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Translations

autonomous oblast — See also translations at NKAO

Armenian: Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի Ինքնավար Մարզ (Leṙnayin Łarabałi Inkʿnavar Marz)

Russian: Нагорно-Карабахская автономная о́бласть (Nagorno-Karabaxskaja avtonomnaja óblastʹ)

See also

• SFSR
• Soviet Socialist Republic
• Nagorno-Karabakh Republic