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It was not an ethnic Armenian majority before the first Karabakh war.
by elchin 5y ago
It was not an ethnic Armenian majority before the first Karabakh war.
- bpodgursky 5y agoYes, which happened 30 years ago, so there's an entire generation that grew up with the borders we have today. We don't want to go back to the borders of historic Armenia for the same reason we don't want to go back to the 1988 borders — it's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#/media/File:Arshakuni_Armenia_150-en.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#/media/File:Arshakuni_...
- elchin 5y ago30 years ago isn't that long - there are still people alive in Azerbaijan who own property deeds for houses in Karabakh, and who were born and grew up there. At the time there were 684k displaced Azerbaijanis (UN number), most of which are still alive today.
- bonzini 5y agoIt was 90% Armenian in the 1920s; the Azerbaijan SSR promoted immigration of Azerbaijani in the region between then and the 1980s, but it never went below 75%.