Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
| Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast | |||||
| Autonomous oblast of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic | |||||
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| Capital | Stepanakert | ||||
| Government | Autonomous Oblast | ||||
| History | |||||
| • | Established | July 7, 1923 | |||
| • | Independence | November 26, 1991 | |||
| Area | 4,388 km2(1,694 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | |||||
| • | 162,181 | ||||
| Density | 37 /km2 (95.7 /sq mi) | ||||
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The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (Russian: Нагорно-Карабахская автономная область, НКАО; Azerbaijani: Дағлыг Гарабағ Мухтар Вилајәти, ДГМВ / Dağlıq Qarabağ Muxtar Vilayəti, DQMV; Armenian: Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի Ինքնավար Մարզ, ԼՂԻՄ / Lernayin Ġarabaġi Inknavar Marz, LĠIM) was an autonomous oblast within the borders of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, mostly inhabited by ethnic Armenians.
According to Robert Service, in 1921 Joseph Stalin, then acting Commissar of Nationalities, prompted to transfer Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and Nagorno-Karabakh under Soviet Azerbaijani control in the wider context of the consequences of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War, the attempt to establish the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and the Treaty of Kars, signed on 13 October 1921 between the Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Azerbaijan SSR, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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