Nagorno-Karabakh

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic conflict between the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the self-declared
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , a region in Azerbaijan populated primarily by ethnic Armenians. It has its origins in the early
20th century, although the present conflict began in 1988 and escalated into a full-scale war in the early 1990s. Tensions and
border skirmishes have continued in the region despite an official cease-fire signed in 1994.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked area within the South Caucasus , lying between shrink Karabakh and Zangezur and
overlaying the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus
mountains. The vicinity is frequently mountainous and forested.
Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as a part of
Azerbaijan,  but many of the area is ruled by way of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , a de facto independent but unrecognized state centered on the groundwork of the Nagorno- Karabakh independent Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR .
Azerbaijan has now not exercised political authority over the neighborhood
given that the arrival of the Karabakh movement in 1988. Considering the
finish of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 1994, representatives of
the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been keeping
peace talks mediated with the aid of the OSCE Minsk group on the
area's disputed reputation.
The area is quite often equated with the executive borders
of the previous Nagorno-Karabakh self reliant Oblast
comprising an subject of four,400 rectangular kilometres (1,seven-hundred sq mi).
The historic field of the neighborhood, nevertheless, encompasses
approximately eight,223 rectangular kilometres (three,a hundred seventy five sq mi).