Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
English
Proper noun
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
- Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union created in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1923 and lasting until 1991. Populated overwhelmingly by Armenians it broke away from Azerbaijan and after a bloody full-scale war gained de facto independence as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Translations
autonomous oblast — see also NKAO
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