KARABAKH

:''For the horse, see Karabakh horse.''
:''For the region, see Nagorno-Karabakh.''
'Karabakh' (, ) is a region in Azerbaijan, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to lowlands between the two rivers of Kura and Aras. The highland part of the region became known as Nagorno-Karabakh after the establishment of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in 1923, and declared independence in 1991, but remains unrecognized worldwide. Portions of lowland Karabakh have been occupied by Armenian forces since the Nagorno-Karabakh War ended in 1993US State Department - 1993 UN Security Council Resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh.
The word "Karabakh" originated from Turkic and Persian, literally meaning "black garden", respectively.BBC News — Regions and territories: Nagorno-Karabakh The name first appears in Georgian and Persian sources in the 13th and 14th centuries.^[1]
The related term ''Karabagh'' [kærəba:] is described by the Oxford English Dictionary as being used to denote a kind of patterned rug originally produced in the area, and is an acceptable alternate spelling of Karabakh.

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1. Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia, two historic regions of Armenia and Caucasian Albania.Great Soviet Encyclopedia, "NKAO, Historial Survey", 3rd edition, translated into English, New York: Macmillan Inc., 1973