Editing Nagorno-Karabakh (section)

=== 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>