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Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · ARM LEFT · AZE RIGHT

1. 1988

   Karabakh dispute reignites

   Under perestroika, Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian majority demonstrated for transfer to Armenia, triggering intercommunal violence that grew into open conflict as the Soviet Union collapsed.

   War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · REFS 1 — Nagorno-Karabakh: conflicts, map and people

2. 1988

   Nagorno-Karabakh dispute erupts

   The regional legislature of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-majority enclave within Soviet Azerbaijan, voted to join Armenia, triggering a conflict that escalated into open war.

   Politics & Power · from the Armenia chronicle · Soviet Armenia · REFS 1 — Nagorno-Karabakh

3. Sept–Nov 2020

   Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

   In a 44-day war Azerbaijan retook much of the territory around Nagorno-Karabakh; a Russian-brokered ceasefire on 9 November 2020 ended the fighting, with heavy casualties on both sides (estimates).

   War & Rupture · from the Armenia chronicle · Independent Armenia · REFS 1 — Nagorno-Karabakh