Nagorno-Karabakh
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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
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
History of Nagorno-Karabakh
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Nagorno-Karabakh is a region of West Asia located in the southern part of the Lesser Caucasus range, at the eastern edge of the Armenian Highlands, encompassing the highland part of the wider geograph
Amaras Monastery (4th century), the 19th-century Church of Saint Grigoris replacing destroyed older building
Gandzasar Monastery (13th century), northern side of the church
Early 20th-century Armenian family in Karabakh
Askeran Fortress, built by Panah Ali Khan, 18th century