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== Demographics == [[File:Karabakh ethnic map.png|right|thumb|250px|Ethnic groups of the region in 1995, after the deportations of Armenians and Azerbaijanis. <small>([http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/ethnocaucasus.jpg See entire map])</small>]] === Antiquity – 1918 === Historically, the inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh — then part of the [[Artsakh (historical province)|province of Artsakh]] — were confirmed by [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] and [[Roman Empire|Roman]] sources "long before our era" to be Armenian.<ref name="beglaryan">{{Cite web |last=Beglaryan |first=Ashot |title=The population of Nagorno-Karabakh for a year. Union of Armenians of Russia - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Excursion into history |url=https://losevskaya.ru/en/zdorove/chislennost-naseleniya-nagornogo-karabaha-na-god-soyuz-armyan.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031102313/https://losevskaya.ru/en/zdorove/chislennost-naseleniya-nagornogo-karabaha-na-god-soyuz-armyan.html |archive-date=31 October 2022 |access-date=31 October 2022 |website=losevskaya.ru |location=Stepanakert}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=January 2023}} In the early 15th century, German traveller [[Johann Schiltberger]] after visiting the region stated that "although the [[Muslims]] had taken possession of Karabagh, there were still Armenian villages in the region".<ref name="twochroniclesonthehistoryofkarabagh">{{Cite book |last1=Javanshir |first1=Mirza Jamal |url=https://ia802207.us.archive.org/25/items/bournoutian-2004-2-karabagh-chronicles/Bournoutian_2004_2Karabagh_Chronicles.pdf |title=Two Chronicles On The History of Karabagh |last2=Adigözal Beg |first2=Mirza |publisher=Mazda Publishers |others=Introduction and annotated translation by [[George A. Bournoutian]] |year=2004 |isbn=1-56859-179-9 |location=Costa Mesa, California |pages=6, 21 & 24 |author-link=Mirza Jamal Javanshir |author-link2=Mirza Adigozal bey}}</ref> Historian [[Victor Schnirelmann]] writes that "In the mid-18th century, … [[Turkic peoples|Turkic tribes]] … gained access to the highland territories [of Karabakh] and began to settle in Shusha … by the end of the 18th century, a substantial number of its former Armenian inhabitants had left Nagorny Karabagh. Just at the turn of the 19th century, the Turkic population significantly outnumbered the local Armenians, but this only lasted … [until the] end of the 1820s, [when] the Armenians began to come back to Karabagh, and they accounted for the majority of its population by the mid-19th century".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shnirelman |first=Victor A. |author-link=Victor Schnirelmann |year=2001 |title=The Value of the Past: Myths, Identity and Politics in Transcaucasia |url=https://abkhazworld.com/aw/Pdf/Shnirelman_V_A_The_Value_of_the_Past_Myths_Identity_and_Politics_in_Transcaucasia_2001.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Senri Ethnological Studies |location=Osaka |publisher=[[National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)|National Museum of Ethnology]] |issue=57 |pages=153 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325072843/https://abkhazworld.com/aw/Pdf/Shnirelman_V_A_The_Value_of_the_Past_Myths_Identity_and_Politics_in_Transcaucasia_2001.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2022}}</ref> [[Edmund Herzig]] and Marina Kurkchiyan present an alternative view that "Armenians had already been a majority in some areas such as mountainous Karabagh", compared to the [[Erivan Governorate|Yerevan province]] which had "regained an Armenian majority for the first time in several hundred years."<ref name="thearmenianspastandpresent" /> According to an 1823 [[Russian Empire|Russian]] survey published in Tiflis (present-day [[Tbilisi]]) in 1866,<ref name="twochroniclesonthehistoryofkarabagh" /> Armenians made up 97 percent of the population in the [[Melikdoms of Karabakh|five districts]] ([[wiktionary:محل#Persian|''mahals'']]) of Nagorno-Karabakh,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bournoutian |first=George |author-link=George Bournoutian |date=2017 |title=The Population of the South Caucasus according to the 1897 General Census of the Russian Empire |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26548902 |journal=Iran & the Caucasus |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=330 |doi=10.1163/1573384X-20170307 |issn=1609-8498 |jstor=26548902 |access-date=21 June 2022 |archive-date=21 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621121535/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26548902 |url-status=live }}</ref> thus proving, contrary to claims in [[Falsification of history in Azerbaijan|Azerbaijani historiography]], that Armenians formed an overwhelming majority of Nagorno-Karabakh prior to 1828. Historian [[George Bournoutian]] writes that Russian statistics from 1810 show that Armenians made up 21 percent of the Karabakh region's population; In 1823, the Armenian population of Karabakh had increased by 30 percent "after the return of those who had fled the region", and by 1832, the Armenian population had increased to one-third of Karabakh. Moreover, the "one-third" of the population of Karabakh composed of Armenians resided in one-third of the territory of Karabakh, the mountainous territory (i.e. Nagorno-Karabakh), where they "constituted an overwhelming majority of the population."<ref name="twochroniclesonthehistoryofkarabagh" /> === 1918–1920 === According to Armenian sources, the "historical Nagorno-Karabakh" region had a population of 300,000–330,000 in 1918–1920, rising to 700,000–800,000 by 1988. As a result of "[[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]]-[[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic|Azerbaijani]] aggression", the region's population declined by 20 percent in 1918–1920.<ref name="thepursuitofinternationalcriminaljustice">{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/497573622 |title=The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice A World Study on Conflicts, Victimization, and Post-conflict Justice |date=2010 |publisher=Intersentia |isbn=978-94-000-0017-9 |editor-last=Bassiouni |editor-first=M. Cherif |volume=2 |location=Antwerp |pages=839 |oclc=497573622 |access-date=22 November 2022 |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113132242/https://worldcat.org/title/497573622 |url-status=live }}</ref> In this period, [[Azerbaijani Land Forces|Azerbaijani forces]] carried out massacres against Armenians in [[Khaibalikend massacre|Ghaibalishen, Jamilli, Karkijahan, and Pahlul]] (600–700 dead<ref>{{cite book |last=Wright |first=John F. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cj9Xiu3OyUC&dq=Khaibalikend&pg=PA99 |title=Transcaucasian Boundaries |publisher=Psychology Press |year=1996 |isbn=9780203214473 |page=99 |access-date=22 November 2022 |archive-date=15 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115230115/https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cj9Xiu3OyUC&dq=Khaibalikend&pg=PA99 |url-status=live }}</ref>), [[Stepanakert]] (several hundred dead<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://karabakhfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/1988/03/Karabagh-File.pdf |title=The Karabagh File |publisher=Cambridge |year=1988 |isbn=0-916431-26-6 |editor-last=Libaridian |editor-first=Gerard J. |editor-link=Gerard Libaridian |edition=1st |location=Toronto |pages=29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220200213/http://karabakhfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/1988/03/Karabagh-File.pdf |archive-date=20 February 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>), and [[Shusha massacre|Shusha]] (several hundred<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cory D. |first=Welt |url=https://home.gwu.edu/~cwelt/ExplainingEthnicConflict_Welt.pdf |title=Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus: Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] |year=2004 |pages=77 |oclc=59823134 |quote=Out of a population of approximately 20,000, at least several hundred were killed; the rest were forced to flee. In the fighting that followed, several nearby villages were also razed. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220911110408/https://home.gwu.edu/~cwelt/ExplainingEthnicConflict_Welt.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> to 12,000 dead<ref name="lazarevsky">{{Cite web |date=13 March 2020 |title=Шушинская резня 1920 года |trans-title=Shusha massacre of 1920 |url=https://lazarevsky.club/aktualno/shushinskaya-reznya-1920-goda/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114221124/https://lazarevsky.club/aktualno/shushinskaya-reznya-1920-goda/ |archive-date=14 November 2022 |access-date=15 November 2022 |website=lazarevsky.club}}</ref>). As a result of the Shusha massacre, 5,000–6,000 Armenians were displaced to the regions of [[Varanda Region|Varanda]] and [[Dizak]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bagdasaryan |first=Gegam |date=March 2015 |title=Три нераскрытых обстоятельства резни армян в Шуши |trans-title=Three unsolved circumstances of the massacre of Armenians in Shushi |url=https://theanalyticon.com/ru/%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%be%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b8/%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8-%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%80%d1%8b%d1%82%d1%8b%d1%85-%d0%be%d0%b1%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b7%d0%bd/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114224058/https://theanalyticon.com/ru/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%85-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD/ |archive-date=14 November 2022 |access-date=15 November 2022 |website=theanalyticon.com |location=Stepanakert |language=ru}}</ref> By 11 April 1920, some thirty villages in Nagorno-Karabakh had been "devastated" by Azerbaijani forces as a result of the uprising, leaving 25,000 homeless (including nearly 6,000 refugees from Shusha).<ref>{{cite book |last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G. |author-link=Richard G. Hovannisian |title=The Republic of Armenia |publisher=University of California Press |year=1996 |isbn=0-520-01805-2 |volume=3 |location=Berkeley |pages=157–158}}</ref> === 1921–1987 === 1923 statistics indicate that the NKAO was 94.8 percent Armenian, numbering 149,600, whilst the Azerbaijani population numbered 7,700. Historian Cory Welt writes of a "discrepancy" of the Armenian population jumping by over 25,000 individuals between the 1921 and 1923 censuses, also pointing out that the Armenian population declined to 111,700 in 1926, thus indicating an "unexplained drop" of 38,000 individuals.<ref name="welt">{{Cite book |last=Cory D. |first=Welt |url=https://home.gwu.edu/~cwelt/ExplainingEthnicConflict_Welt.pdf |title=Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus: Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] |year=2004 |pages=116 |oclc=59823134 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220911110408/https://home.gwu.edu/~cwelt/ExplainingEthnicConflict_Welt.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1920s, the NKAO had a population of 131,500 people, 94.4 percent (124,136) of whom were ethnic Armenians and only 5.6 percent (7,364) of whom were ethnic Azerbaijanis.<ref name="thearmenianspastandpresent">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229988654 |title=The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity |date=2005 |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon |first1=Edmund |last1=Herzig |first2=Marina |last2=Kurkchiyan |isbn=0-203-00493-0 |location=London |pages=66 & 121 |oclc=229988654}}</ref> In 1933, Nagorno-Karabakh had a population of 147,308, 10,751 (7.3 percent) of whom were urban dwellers, and 136,557 (92.7 percent) of whom were rural residents.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000200_000018_rc_2682917/ |title=Административное деление АССР... 1. Районы, сельсоветы, списки, населенных мест с указанием численности населения, национального состава числа хозяйств по состоянию на 1/1-1933 г. 2. Список колхозов, совхозов, МТС и МТФ. 3. Карты, районов на тюрк. и рус. яз. (отдельно) - Азербайджанская ССР Управление народно-хозяйственного учета |date=1933 |language=ru |access-date=22 November 2022 |archive-date=28 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228083343/https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000200_000018_rc_2682917/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On 1 January 1973, the oblast had a population of 153,000.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/greatsovietencyc0017unse |title=Great Soviet Encyclopedia |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |year=1973 |volume=17 |location=New York |pages=301}}</ref> ==== Discrimination and stagnation ==== Whilst the region was a part of the Azerbaijan SSR, the Armenian share of the population dropped from 94.7 to 76.9 percent, whilst the Azerbaijani share of the population quadrupled from 5.1 to 21.5 percent<ref name="thearmenianspastandpresent" /> as a result of "migratory influx"<ref name="thepursuitofinternationalcriminaljustice" /> — indicative of the socio-economic difficulties local Armenians experienced under Soviet Azerbaijani leadership which led them to emigrate from Karabakh.<ref name="thearmenianspastandpresent" /> Emeritus professor of law [[M. Cherif Bassiouni]] writes of the stagnation of the Armenian population "due to the discriminatory policies of Azerbaijani authorities that compelled Armenians to emigrate"; also adding that 600,000 Armenians from Karabakh reside in Armenia and the countries of the [[Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]].<ref name="thepursuitofinternationalcriminaljustice" /> According to historian Deon Geldenhuys, "[t]his was due to Baku's deliberate promotion of Azerbaijani settlement in Karabagh as part of a policy of 'cultural de-Armenization' of the region"; further adding that Azerbaijan "neglected the economic needs of the territory".<ref>{{cite book |last=Geldenhuys |first=Deon|title= Contested States in World Politics |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |year=2009 |isbn= 9780230234185 |volume=3 |location=Berkeley |page=97}}</ref> Stuart J. Kaufman, a professor of political science and international relations,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stuart Kaufman |url=https://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/experts/stuart-kaufman/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020085939/https://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/experts/stuart-kaufman/ |archive-date=20 October 2022 |access-date=22 November 2022 |website=[[University of Delaware]]}}</ref> writes of the difficulties of Karabakh Armenians:<blockquote>… Armenian-language education was not easily available, Armenian history was not taught at all, and those who went to Armenia for training were discriminated against in competing for jobs in the province, … Underinvestment in the region—also blamed on Baku—meant less economic development and poor infrastructure even by Soviet standards, and therefore fewer jobs overall, especially for Armenians. Cultural ties with Armenia were strangled in red tape in Baku, and a decision to make Armenian-language television available in the region was left unimplemented. One result of these policies was a continuing exodus of Armenians from Karabagh in search of greener pastures.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kaufman |first=Stuart J. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1160511946 |title=Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War |date=2001 |isbn=978-1-5017-0199-3 |location=Ithaca, New York |pages=58–59 |oclc=1160511946}}</ref></blockquote> === 1988–present === Following the [[Sumgait pogrom]] and the exodus of [[Azerbaijanis in Armenia|Azerbaijanis from Armenia]], Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert and Armenians in Shusha were [[1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert|expelled]] in September 1988. As [[Republic of Artsakh|local Armenian forces]] gained possession of Nagorno-Karabakh and [[Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh|surrounding districts]] (amounting to 14 percent of the internationally recognised territory of Azerbaijan) during the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh war]], hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis were expelled from their lands.<ref name="dewaal"/> During the [[Second Nagorno-Karabakh War]], Azerbaijan regained control over the surrounding districts and southern parts of the former NKAO, thus displacing approximately 70,000 Armenians.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-10-10 |title=Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia and Azerbaijan shaky ceasefire in force |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54488386 |url-status=live |access-date=2020-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010002202/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54488386 |archive-date=10 October 2020}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+Historical ethnic composition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in 1921–1989 ! rowspan="2" |Ethnic group ! colspan="2" |1921<ref name="welt" /><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Перепись населения АзССР в 1921 г. |trans-title=Census of the population of the AzSSR in 1921 |url=http://www.karabagh.am/6DokiSvid/Perepis21.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526195503/http://www.karabagh.am/6DokiSvid/Perepis21.htm |archive-date=26 May 2011 |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=karabagh.am}}</ref> ! colspan="2" |1923<ref name="beglaryan" /><ref name="welt" /> ! colspan="2" |1925<ref name="beglaryan" /> ! colspan="2" |1926<ref name="beglaryan" /><ref name="этно1926">[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_26.php?reg=2304 Всесоюзная перепись населения 1926 года. Национальный состав населения по регионам республик СССР] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605115531/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_26.php?reg=2304 |date=5 June 2016 }} Демоскоп</ref> ! colspan="2" |1939<ref name="beglaryan" /><ref>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rer_nac_39_gs.php?reg=25&gor=3&Submit=OK Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года. Распределение городского и сельского населения областей союзных республик по национальности и полу] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605115645/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rer_nac_39_gs.php?reg=25&gor=3&Submit=OK |date=5 June 2016 }} Демоскоп</ref> ! colspan="2" |1959<ref name="beglaryan" /><ref>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_59.php?reg=67 Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 года. Городское и сельское население областей республик СССР (кроме РСФСР) по полу и национальности] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605120901/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_59.php?reg=67 |date=5 June 2016 }} Демоскоп</ref> ! colspan="2" |1970<ref name="beglaryan" /><ref>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_70.php?reg=74 Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 года. Городское и сельское население областей республик СССР (кроме РСФСР) по полу и национальности] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605122710/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_70.php?reg=74 |date=5 June 2016 }} Демоскоп</ref> ! colspan="2" |1979<ref name="beglaryan" /><ref>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_79.php?reg=77 Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года. Городское и сельское население областей республик СССР (кроме РСФСР) по полу и национальности] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605120319/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_79.php?reg=77 |date=5 June 2016 }} Демоскоп</ref> ! colspan="2" |1989<ref>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_89.php?reg=71 Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года.Распределение городского и сельского населения областей республик СССР по полу и национальности] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605113511/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_89.php?reg=71 |date=5 June 2016 }} Демоскоп</ref> |- !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% |- |[[Armenians]] | align="right" |122,426 | align="right" |94.73 | align="right" |149,600 | align="right" |94.8 | align="right" |142,470 | align="right" |90.28 | align="right" |111,694 | align="right" |89.24 | align="right" |132,800 | align="right" |88.04 | align="right" |110,053 | align="right" |84.39 | align="right" |121,068 | align="right" |80.54 | align="right" |123,076 | align="right" |75.89 | align="right" |145,450 | align="right" |76.92 |- |[[Azerbaijanis]]{{efn|Until 1936, Azerbaijanis were known as "Tatars" or "Turkish-Tatars".}} | align="right" |6,550 | align="right" |5.07 | align="right" |7,700 | align="right" |4.9 | align="right" |15,261 | align="right" |9.67 | align="right" |12,592 | align="right" |10.06 | align="right" |14,053 | align="right" |9.32 | align="right" |17,995 | align="right" |13.80 | align="right" |27,179 | align="right" |18.08 | align="right" |37,264 | align="right" |22.98 | align="right" |40,688 | align="right" |21.52 |- |[[Russians]] | rowspan="7" |267 | rowspan="7" |0.21 | rowspan="7" |500 | rowspan="7" |0.3 | align="right" |46 | align="right" |0.03 | align="right" |596 | align="right" |0.48 | align="right" |3,174 | align="right" |2.10 | align="right" |1,790 | align="right" |1.37 | align="right" |1,310 | align="right" |0.87 | align="right" |1,265 | align="right" |0.78 | align="right" |1,922 | align="right" |1.02 |- |[[Ukrainians]] | rowspan="6" |30 | rowspan="6" |0.02 | align="right" |35 | align="right" |0.03 | align="right" |436 | align="right" |0.29 | align="right" |238 | align="right" |0.18 | align="right" |193 | align="right" |0.13 | align="right" |140 | align="right" |0.09 | align="right" |416 | align="right" |0.22 |- |[[Belarusians]] | align="right" |12 | align="right" |0.01 | align="right" |11 | align="right" |0.01 | align="right" |32 | align="right" |0.02 | align="right" |35 | align="right" |0.02 | align="right" |37 | align="right" |0.02 | align="right" |79 | align="right" |0.04 |- |[[Greeks]] | align="right" |68 | align="right" |0.05 | align="right" |74 | align="right" |0.05 | align="right" |67 | align="right" |0.05 | align="right" |33 | align="right" |0.02 | align="right" |56 | align="right" |0.03 | align="right" |72 | align="right" |0.04 |- |[[Tatars]] | align="right" |6 | align="right" |0.00 | align="right" |29 | align="right" |0.02 | align="right" |36 | align="right" |0.03 | align="right" |25 | align="right" |0.02 | align="right" |41 | align="right" |0.03 | align="right" |64 | align="right" |0.03 |- |[[Georgians]] | align="right" |5 | align="right" |0.00 | align="right" |25 | align="right" |0.02 | align="right" |16 | align="right" |0.01 | align="right" |22 | align="right" |0.01 | align="right" |17 | align="right" |0.01 | align="right" |57 | align="right" |0.03 |- |Others | align="right" |151 | align="right" |0.12 | align="right" |235 | align="right" |0.16 | align="right" |179 | align="right" |0.14 | align="right" |448 | align="right" |0.30 | align="right" |285 | align="right" |0.18 | align="right" |337 | align="right" |0.18 |- !Total !129,243{{Efn|With the city of Shusha included, the NKAO's total population was 138,466, the adjusted ethnic composition is as follows:{{bulleted list|Armenians – 122,715 (88.62%)|Azerbaijanis – 15,444 (11.15%)|Others – 307 (0.22%)}}}} !100.00 !157,800 !100.0 !157,807 !100.00 !125,159 !100.00 !150,837 !100.00 !130,406 !100.00 !150,313 !100.00 !162,181 !100.00 !189,085 !100.00 |}
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