Karabakh Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia
About Karabakh
Politically, Nagorno-Karabakh is a part of Azerbaijan, but had an ethnic Armenian majority since the days of theRussian Empire. As theSoviet Unionwas falling apart in the 1980s and 1990s, the ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh decided to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, resulting in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War being fought from 1988-1994, in which the local Azeris were ethnically cleansed from the area. Although no country formally recognised Nagorno-Karabakh's independence, itsde factoindependence was maintained through economic and military support fromArmenia. Azerbaijan, on the other hand, continued to assert its sovereignty over the region. Nagorno-Karabakh was in a state of political limbo from 1994, when it declared independence, until 2020 when Azerbaijan regained much
Top Attractions in Karabakh
Explore the best things to see and do in Karabakh:
- ★Amaras monastery
- ★Askeran fortress
- ★Dadivank monastery
- ★Gandzasar monastery
- ★Gtichavank monastery
- ★Qamışlı Gorge
- ★Tigranakert of Artsakh
- ★Tsitsernavank monastery
Karabakh Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 10 sections including: