Stepanakert
Khankendi / Stepanakert
Xankəndi Ստեփանակերտ | |
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Khankendi / Stepanakert Location of Khankendi in Azerbaijan. | |
| Coordinates: 39°48′55″N 46°45′7″E / 39.81528°N 46.75194°E | |
| Country Unrecognized country | Azerbaijan (de jure) Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (de facto) |
| Province | Khankendi (city) |
| Elevation | 813 m (2,670 ft) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
| • Total | 53,000 |
| Website | www |
Khankendi (Azerbaijani: Xankəndi) is a city in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, legally in Azerbaijan, but was militarily controlled by the Armenian forces as the capital city of the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh Republic). Stepanakert (Armenian: Ստեփանակերտ) or The city was about 40,000 ethnic Armenians. The entire Azerbaijani population was driven away from the city during the Nagorno-Karabakh War but now it is populated fully by Azerbaijanis.
Notable natives
- André - Former Armenian singer
- Armen Abaghian - academic
- Vladimir Arzumanyan - Former Armenian singer, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010
- Don Askarian - Former Armenian filmmaker
- Samvel Babayan - Former Armeniangeneral
- Zori Balayan - Former Armenian writer
- Robert Kocharyan - Second Former Armenian President of Armenia
- Fakhraddin Manafov - Former Armenian actor
- Serzh Sargsyan - Third President of Former Armenia, incumbent
- Nikolay Yenikolopov (Yenikolopyan) - Former Armenian academic
References
- ↑ Results of 2005 census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. p. 47.
Other websites
- Stepanakert Municipality Archived 2016-06-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Armenian)
- Karabakh’s Election Conundrum November 2005 article about elections for seats in the Milli Mejlis (Azerbaijani parliament) for Azeri refugees
- Stepanakert Armeniapedia article