Karabakh (disambiguation)

Karabakh is a geographic region in the south of Armenia and the west of Azerbaijan.

Spelling

Although "Karabakh" is the most common spelling of the name in English, there are many ways to spell it:

• Gharabagh (transliteration of the Armenian spelling)
• Qarabagh, Qarabağ, Qarah Bagh (transliterations of the Azerbaijani spelling)

Political entities

Karabakh may also refer to these political entities:

• Upland Karabakh (Azerbaijani: Yuxarı Qarabağ), one of the economic regions of Azerbaijan
• Qarabagh District, Ghazni, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
• Qarabagh District, Kabul, in Kabul Province, Afghanistan
• Qarah Bagh, North Khorasan, Iran
• Qarah Bagh, Qazvin, Iran
• Qarah Bagh, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
• Qarah Bagh, West Azerbaijan, Iran
• Qarah Bagh Rural District, in Fars Province, Iran

Or these historical political entities:

• Melikdoms of Karabakh, also known as "Khamsa."
• Province of Karabakh within the Safavid Empire of Iran
• Karabakh Khanate (1747–1805)
• Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast within Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union

Geographic locations

Karabakh may also refer to these geographic areas:

• Nagorno-Karabakh, meaning "Mountainous Karabakh." Although Karabakh refers to the whole of Karabakh, due to the prominence of the mountainous region in the contemporary politics of the region, it is often synonymous with just the mountainous area.
• Karabakh Steppe, or Lowland Karabakh (see Karabakh)
• Zangezur, the western highlands of Karabakh, the only part of Karabakh which lies within Armenia, roughly corresponding to the Province of Syunik.

Other

• The Karabakh breed of horse

See also

• Artsakh (historic province), the name of the mountainous region of modern-day Karabakh during Antiquity.
• Principality of Khachen, a principality that existed in the mountainous region of modern-day Karabakh in the Middle Ages
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Nagorno-Karabakh War