Stepanakert Nagorno Karabakh
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Stepanakert (Armenian: Ստեփանակերտ Step'anakert), also called Khankendi (Azerbaijani: Xankəndi) and originally Vararakn (Armenian: Վարարակն), is the capital and the largest city of the de facto Republic of Artsakh. As of 2015, the population of Stepanakert is 55,200.
Stepanakert meaning the city of Stepan is named after Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary Stepan Shaumian. The name is formed of the words Stepan (Armenian: Ստեփան) and kert (Armenian: կերտ) meaning created.
According to medieval Armenian sources, the settlement was first mentioned as Vararakn (Վարարակն, meaning "rapid spring" in Armenian), a name that remained in use until 1847, when it was renamed Khankendi.
In 1923 Khankendi was renamed Stepanakert (meaning the city of Stepan in Armenian) by the Soviet government to honor Stepan Shahumyan, leader of the 26 Baku Commissars, and, since the Shusha pogrom had resulted in major destruction at Shusha, the former regional capital, Stepanakert was made the capital of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO). In time, Stepanakert grew to become the region's most important city (a status it received in 1940). Stepanakert population rose from 10,459 in 1939 to 33,000 in 1978.
In 1926, municipal authorities adopted a new city layout designed by Alexander Tamanian; two additional designs for expansion were approved in the 1930s and 1960s, both of which retained Tamanian's initial plan. Several schools and two polyclinics were established, and an Armenian drama theater was founded in 1932 and named after Maxim Gorky. Stepanakert served as Nagorno Karabakh's main economic hub, and by the mid-1980s there were nineteen production facilities in Stepanakert.
The political and economic reforms that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had initiated in 1985 saw a marked decentralization of Soviet authority. Armenians, in both Armenia proper and Nagorno Karabakh, viewed Gorbachev's reform program as an opportunity to unite the two together. On 20 February 1988, tens of thousands of Armenians gathered to demonstrate in Stepanakert's Lenin Square (now Renaissance Square) to demand that the region be joined to Armenia. On the same day, the Supreme Soviet of Nagorno Karabakh voted to join the Armenian SSR, a move staunchly opposed by the Soviet Azerbaijani authorities. Relations between Stepankert's Armenians and Azerbaijanis, who supported the Azerbaijani government's position, deteriorated in the following years and as a result. Pogroms against the Azerbaijani population in September 1988, with physical attacks and burning of property, forced nearly all Azerbaijanis to flee Stepanakert. The Soviet Army stationed in Stepanakert implemented curfew after 3 days. In 1990 Soviet army has sent several platoons of Special Forces and various other additional units to Stepanakert in order to prevent its takeover by Azerbaijani forces.
After Azerbaijan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Stepanakert was renamed by the Azerbaijani government back to Khankendi as part of a campaign against communism and Azerbaijanification. Fighting broke out over control of Nagorno Karabakh which eventually resulted in Armenian control of the region and a connecting corridor to Armenia to the west. Prior to the conflict, Stepanakert was the largest city of the NKAO, with a population of 70,000 out of a total 189,000 (Armenians at the time comprised 75% of the region's total population). By early 1992, that figure had dropped to 50,000.
During the war, Stepanakert suffered immense damage from Azerbaijani bombardment, especially in early 1992 when the Azerbaijanis used the town of Shushi as an artillery firebase to rain down Grad missiles upon Stepanakert. So destructive was the damage caused by the incessant bombardment, that a journalist for Time noted in an April 1992 article that "scarcely a single building [had] escaped damage in Stepanakert." It was not until 9 May 1992, with the capture of Shusha, that the ground bombardment ceased. The city, nevertheless, continued to suffer aerial bombardment for the remainder of the war.
There has been an unofficial cease-fire since 1994.
Stepanakert came under bombardment once again during the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh war. Residential areas were hit by the Azerbaijani Army with cluster munitions during the first days of fighting, as residents were urged to use Stepanakert's bomb shelters. As Azerbaijani forces advanced on the city of Shusha, the Lachin corridor was shut down by Artsakh authorities.
A ceasefire agreement was signed on 10 November as Azerbaijani forces were within 15 kilometers of the capital, effectively deploying Russian peacekeepers to the region.
Stepanakert is located on Karabakh plateau, at an average altitude of 813m
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Karabakh is one of the ancient historical regions of Azerbaijan. The name Karabakh is a combination of the words “gara” (black, big) and “bagh” (garden, land). The word “Karabakh” as a name given by Azerbaijani people to their land first appeared in primary sources of the 7th century.
Hi and thanks for your comment. First of all, I'm not from there, I'm from Barcelona and with any of my videis I'm trying to do any political or religion speech. My videos are just videos of places I visit, and usually, in the description I just copy paste what I found in wikipedia.
I read in wikipedia what you explain about the word Karabakh, but I really think that this doesn't means anything, as Armenians call it Artsakh, and this names is an ancient name too how appears in BC texts. But there is names more ancient than that too, like greek ones, and I'm sure we agree that is not a greek region. You can read all that in wikipedia too (I did in english, spanish and catalan)
Is very comon that all regions in the world has different names (coming from the past) in the different lenguages that live around a concret area.
About if is an ancient historical region of Azerbadjan, as you said, as far as I know, Azerbadjan appears 100 years ago, so, is not an ancient country. Of course, your culture is, but not with an ancient independent country.
Anyway, thanks for comment by a respectful way, unfortunadenly is not common on this days in my other videos of this region.
In Urdu (Pakistani Language) it would be translated as Kala (Kara) bagh (bagh). Urdu is much similar to Turkish and Persian with many common words.
@@Dr.SyedAliSalman thanks for share. One question, with which characters is wrote Urdu? Latin characters? or are like Arab characters? You understand, more or less, each other? For example all Latin language speakers, like me, can more or less understand the others.
@@VisitPlaces Urdu is written in Persian characters. So Karabakh in Urdu will be written as "کاراباخ"۔" .
Nice video. I visited Azerbaijan about 3 years back. I believe that a human life is far above our materialistic gains. I think Armenians should, now, look towards normalization of relations with their neighbors to make life easier for their people.
@@Dr.SyedAliSalman thanks! Provably they are really different, but for me this characters looks like Arab ones.
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