|
Following the collapse of the USSR, the
former Soviet nation-state of the Nagorno Karabagh Autonomous Region and
the Armenian inhabited Shahumian region combined to form
Nagorno Karabagh Republic (NKR).
Independence of the NKR was declared on September 2, 1991, in accordance
with fundamental norms of international rights. Since then, the Republic's
leaders have consistently pursued a policy of maintaining peace and
stability in the Caucasus region.
Nagorno Karabagh (in Armenian, Artsakh) is located in the northeastern
area of the Armenian highlands. Since ancient times, it has been a
province of historical Armenia.The northeastern border, according to all ancient sources, was the Kura River. In the ancient Armenian state of Urartu (9th-6th centuries
B.C.), Artsakh was referred to as Urtekhe-Urtekheni. The nature and
climate of the mountainous region are
conditioned by its favourable
geographic location. The works of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius
Ptolemy, Plutarch, Dion Cassius, and others note that the border between
Armenia and Aghvank (Caucasian Albania, its most ancient Caucasian
neighbor representing a mixture of mountainous peoples) was the Kura
River.
For more information please visit the following site
www.nkr.am |
