|
| }} |common_name = Nagorno-Karabakh |image_map = Location Nagorno-Karabakh2.png |map_caption = Location and extent of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (lighter color). |area_rank = |area_magnitude = |area_km2 = 4,400 |area_sq_mi = 1,700 |percent_water = negligible |population_estimate = 146,573 |population_census = 141,400 |citizenship = Nagorno-Karabakh |religion = Christianity (Armenian Apostolic Church) |population_estimate_rank = |population_estimate_year = 2013 |population_census_year = 2010 |population_density_km2 = 29 |population_density_sq_mi = 43 |population_density_rank = |time_zone = |utc_offset = +4 |time_zone_DST = +5 |utc_offset_DST = |drives_on = right }} Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, lying between Lower Karabakh and Zangezur and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains. The region is mostly mountainous and forested. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but most of the region is governed by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a ''de facto'' independent but unrecognized state established on the basis of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR. Azerbaijan has not exercised political authority over the region since the advent of the Karabakh movement in 1988. Since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, representatives of the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group on the region's disputed status. The region is usually equated with the administrative borders of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast comprising an area of . The historical area of the region, however, encompasses approximately .〔Robert H. Hewsen. "The Meliks of Eastern Armenia: A Preliminary Study". ''Revue des etudes Arméniennes''. NS: IX, 1972, pp. 288.〕〔Robert H. Hewsen, ''Armenia: A Historical Atlas''. The University of Chicago Press, 2001, p. 264. ISBN 978-0-226-33228-4〕 ==Name== The prefix ''Nagorno-'' is derived from the Russian attributive adjective ''nagorny'' (нагорный), which means "highland". The Azerbaijani names of the region include the similar adjectives "dağlıq" (mountainous) or "yuxarı" (upper). Such words are not used in the Armenian name, but they have appeared in the official name of the region during the Soviet era as Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. Other languages apply their own wording for ''mountainous'', ''upper'', or ''highland''; for example, the official name used by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in France is ''Haut-Karabakh'', meaning "Upper Karabakh". The name ''Karabakh'' is made of two words, "kara" and "bagh" (or "bakh") which originate, respectively, from Turkic and Persian, and literally means "black garden".〔The BBC World News. (Regions and territories: Nagorno-Karabakh ), ''BBC News Online''. Last updated October 3, 2007. Retrieved November 21, 2007.〕〔 Ulubabyan, Bagrat. ''Karabagh'' (Ղարաբաղ). The Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia, vol. vii, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1981 p. 26〕 The name first appears in Georgian and Persian sources of the 13th and 14th centuries.〔 ''Karabagh'' is an acceptable alternate spelling of ''Karabakh'', and also denotes a kind of patterned rug originally produced in the area.〔C. G. Ellis, "Oriental Carpets", 1988. p133.〕 In an alternative theory proposed by Bagrat Ulubabyan, the name Karabakh has a Turkic–Armenian origin, meaning "Greater Baghk" ((アルメニア語:Մեծ Բաղք)), a reference to Ktish-Baghk (later: Dizak), one of the principalities of Artsakh under the rule of the Aranshahik dynasty, which held the throne of the Kingdom of Syunik in the 11th–13th centuries and called itself the "Kingdom of Baghk".〔Robert H. Hewsen, ''Armenia: a Historical Atlas.'' University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 119–120.〕 The names for the region in the various local languages all translate to "mountainous Karabakh", or "mountainous black garden": * (アルメニア語:Լեռնային Ղարաբաղ), transliterated ''Leṙnayin Ġarabaġ'' (IPA: ) * (アゼルバイジャン語:Dağlıq Qarabağ, Дағлыг Гарабағ) (mountainous Karabakh; IPA: ) or ''Yuxarı Qarabağ, Јухары Гарабағ'' (upper Karabakh; IPA: ) * (ロシア語:Нагорный Карабах), transliterated ''Nagornyy Karabakh'' or ''Nagornyi Karabah'' (IPA: ) Nagorno-Karabakh is often referred to by the Armenians living in the area as Artsakh (Armenian: ), designating the 10th province of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia. In Urartian inscriptions (9th–7th centuries BC), the name ''Urtekhini'' is used for the region.〔PanArmenian Network. (Artsakh: From Ancient Time to 1918 ). PanArmenian.net. June 9, 2003. Retrieved November 21, 2007.〕 Ancient Greek sources called the area ''Orkhistene''.〔Strabo (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) . (''Geography'' ). The Perseus Digital Library. 11.14.4. Retrieved November 21, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nagorno-Karabakh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|