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Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası (Azerbaijani)
Flag of Nakhchivan
Emblem of Nakhchivan
Flag Emblem
Anthem of Azerbaijan: Azərbaycan marşı
Location of Nakhchivan in the Armenian Highlands.[2]
Location of Nakhchivan in the Armenian Highlands.
Capital
and largest city
Nakhchivan
Official languages Azerbaijani
Government Autonomous republic
• Parliamentary Chairman
Vasif Talibov
Legislature Supreme Assembly
Autonomy
• Establishment of the Nakhchivan ASSR

February 9, 1924
• Nakhchivan
Autonomous Republic

November 17, 1990
Area
• Total
5,500 km2 (2,100 sq mi)
• Water (%)
negligible
Population
• 2015 estimate
439,800
• Density
77/km2 (199.4/sq mi)
HDI (2014) Steady 0.772
high
Currency Azerbaijani manat (AZN)
Time zone Azerbaijan Time (UTC+4)
Calling code +994 36
Ethnic groups in Nakhchivan
Year Azerbaijanis  % Armenians  % Others 1  % TOTAL
1828
2,0242
55.3
1,6323
44.7 3,656
1831 Increase 17,1382 56.1 Increase 13,3424 43.7
27
1.2 30,507
1896 Increase 49,425 56.9 Increase 36,671 42.2 Increase 583 0.7 86,878
18975 Increase 64,151 63.7 Decrease 34,672 34.4 Increase 1,948 1.9 100,771
1917 Increase 81,1002 60 Increase 53,900 40 135,000
1926 Increase 88,433 84.3 Decrease 11,276 10.8 Increase 4,947 4.7 104,656
1939 Increase 108,529 85.7 Increase 13,350 10.5 Decrease 4,817 126,696
1959 Increase 127,508 90.2 Decrease 9,519 6.7 Decrease 4,334 3.1 141,361
1970 Increase 189,679 93.8 Decrease 5,828 2.9
Increase 6,680
3.3 202,187
1979
Increase 229,968
95.6 Decrease 3,406 1.4 Increase 7,085 2.9 240,459
1989
Increase 281,807
95.9 Decrease 1,858 0.6 Increase 10,210 3.5 293,875
1999
Increase 350,806
99.6 Decrease 17 0 Decrease 3,249 0.9 354,072
2009 Increase 396,709 99.6 Decrease 6 0 Decrease 1,608 0.4 398,323
1 Russians, Kurds, Turks, Ukrainians, Georgians, Persians etc.
2 Azerbaijanis combined with other Muslims.
3 of those 404 (11.1%) are local and 1,228 (33.6%) are newly settled.
4 of those 2,690 (8.7%) are local and 10,652 (34.9%) are newly settled.
5 according to mother tongue.

The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası) is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The region covers 5,500 km2 (2,100 sq mi) with a population of 410,000, bordering Armenia (length of frontier 221 km [137 mi]) to the east and north, Iran (179 km [111 mi]) to the south and west, and Turkey (only 8 km [5.0 mi]) to the northwest.

The area that is now Nakhchivan became part of the Safavid dynasty of Iran in the 16th century. In 1828, after the last Russo-Persian War and the Treaty of Turkmenchay, the Nakhchivan Khanate passed from Iranian into Imperial Russian possession. After the 1917 February Revolution, Nakhchivan and its surrounding region were under the authority of the Special Transcaucasian Committee of the Russian Provisional Government and subsequently of the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. When the TDFR was dissolved in May 1918, Nakhchivan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Zangezur (today the Armenian province of Syunik), and Qazakh were heavily contested between the newly formed and short-lived states of the Democratic Republic of Armenia (DRA) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR). In June 1918, the region came under Ottoman occupation. Under the terms of the Armistice of Mudros, the Ottomans agreed to pull their troops out of the Transcaucasus to make way for British occupation at the close of the First World War. In July 1920, the Bolsheviks occupied the region and on July 28, declared the Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic with "close ties" to the Azerbaijan SSR, beginning seventy years of Soviet rule. In January 1990 Nakhchivan declared independence from the USSR to protest against the suppression of the national movement in Azerbaijan, and became the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic within the newly independent Republic of Azerbaijan a year later.


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