The Lachin corridor was a mountain road in Azerbaijan that previously linked Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani checkpoint to the Lachin corridor at the Hakari bridge, viewed from Kornidzor, Republic of Armenia. The checkpoint was installed on 23 April 2023, in violation of the tripartite ceasefire agreement that ended the 2020 war.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a region located within the territory of present-day Azerbaijan, covering the southeastern stretch of the Lesser Caucasus mountain range. Part of the greater region of Karabakh, it
Lachin corridor
…The Lachin corridor was a mountain road in Azerbaijan that previously linked Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Being the only road between these two territories, it was considered a humanitarian corridor or lifeline to the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh…
June 2001 NASA photograph of the snow-covered Lesser Caucasus to the south of the Greater Caucasus. Around the year 1800, the Karabakh Khanate was based in the southeast corner of the Lesser Caucasus. It extended east into the lowlands, hence the name Nagorno- or "Highland-" Karabakh for the western part.
The Amaras Monastery, founded in the 4th century by St Gregory the Illuminator. In the 5th century, Mesrop Mashtots, inventor of the Armenian alphabet, established at Amaras the first school to use his script.
The monastery at Gandzasar was commissioned by the House of Khachen and completed in 1238
The Shusha fortress, built by the Karabakh Khanate ruler Panah Ali Khan in the 18th century