Sentence examples for karabakh from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A historically Armenian-populated geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and Araks. It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh (the ancient Armenian province of Artsakh, and later the kingdom of Caucasian Albania; now present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes) and a part of Syunik.
A 1994 ceasefire agreement left Armenian forces in control of not only Karabakh but also about an eighth of Azerbaijan proper.
Azerbaijan's top diplomatic priority is the recovery of Karabakh and other territories, but political talks with Armenia are at stalemate.
A Karabakh ceasefire agreement was reached in 1994 but the two countries have continued to haggle over peace terms.
Now, however, things may change.A ceasefire in 1994 left Armenia in control both of Karabakh itself and of swathes of adjacent territory.
His background as a former wartime leader of the Karabakh Armenians should enhance his ability to deliver an agreement on his homeland's status.His mind will be concentrated further in Washington next week.
One sort of grand bargain has been much discussed in Baku and Washington, but firmly rejected by Mr Kocharian: an exchange of territory that would leave the Armenians in control of Lachin, the town whose surrounding land links Karabakh with Armenia proper, while ceding Armenia's southern Meghri district to Azerbaijan.
The defence ministry of the de facto Nagorno-Karabakh republic also said two of its soldiers had been killed as a result of attempted incursions by Azerbaijan.
This summer was "more tense than before", says an officer at the front of this long-simmering conflict.Nagorno-Karabakh is run by ethnic Armenians but is legally part of Azerbaijan.
The country's post-Soviet history has been defined by two diplomatic disputes with its neighbours: a quest to get Turkey to agree that the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during the late Ottoman era constituted genocide; and the search for a political settlement to a conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory.
The post-Soviet era started disastrously with defeat in a war against neighbouring Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
A judgment that the declaration of independence was legal would also have an impact on the wider international stage, bolstering demands for recognition by territories as diverse as Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria.
